Will Oracle Bid for Red Hat
October 11th, 2008There’s some speculation that Oracle will make a takeover bid for Red Hat, especially in the current financial crisis where despite good results Red Hats share price is plummeting.
Knowing how the Linux community reacts to these type of events I doubt this would be good news for Fedora. Looking at the bad press that Novell gets these days with it’s own boycott Novell website after their deal with Microsoft I could easily see people passing Fedora over and moving to another distro. Oracle is not exactly known for their openness and the loss of Red Hat, with it’s position as a flag bearer for the open source community, would be major blow.
Just to confirm how much Red Hat gives to Linux just look at the latest Linux Kernel Development report.