[NTLUG:Discuss] Crazy world of acquisitions lately

[Justin M. Forbes]

Let me start by saying that I have been given no insight into this (2.6
was much more news with the Fedora crew today than LVM), but volume
management has been included in RH for a while, even if only as an
afterthought.  I dont know that I would see the value in the purchase
for Red Hat.  They certainly are not the type to try to edge anyone out,
so I could easily see Suseware continuing with their lvm support. 
Remember IBM has also had a bit to do with Red Hat, and I would see IBM
being more interested in at least 2 strong players in the Linux market
to keep innovation up, and IBM under less pressure.  If there is only
one enterprise Linux Vendor, they would have a lot more power to "call
the shots" when dealing with a hardware vendor/service company like IBM
who is highly dependent on Linux based revenue.

Justin

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:06, Chris Cox wrote:

> Very, very interesting.  My guess is that Redhat
> will make sure that LVM and GFS integrate primarily
> (and effectively only) with RH in the future...
> similar to Novell's support of NDS favoring
> SUSE (aka Novell Linux).
> 

Let me start by saying that I have been given no insight into this (2.6
was much more news with the Fedora crew today than LVM), but volume
management has been included in RH for a while, even if only as an
afterthought.  I don't know that I would see the value in the purchase
for Red Hat.  They certainly are not the type to try to edge anyone out,
so I could easily see "Suseware" continuing with their lvm support. 
Remember IBM has also had a bit to do with Red Hat, and I would see IBM
being more interested in at least 2 strong players in the Linux market
to keep innovation up, and IBM under less pressure.  If there is only
one enterprise Linux Vendor, they would have a lot more power to "call
the shots" when dealing with a hardware vendor/service company like IBM
who is highly dependent on Linux based revenue.  Novell also announced
support for Red Hat on its own products.

Justin