Comments on: Red Hat scoops up JBoss

Ending speculation, Linux distributor shells out $350 million for open-source Java company.

[Don_Dodge]

Will Open Source business models change?

Oracle, Red Hat, IBM, Novell, and other large players are busy acquiring the most successful open source companies. How will this effect the open source community? Will the acquired companies remain open source? Will business models change? Would you bet your company on open source? Would you build mission critical applications on open source? Questions to consider for entrepreneurs and IT executives.

There are very few open source investment opportunities for VCs. I wrote a blog entitled "Open Source - the Darwinian approach to software" which looks at the odds of success for open source projects. Only the strongest survive.
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/04/redhat_acquires.html

[dragonbite]

I think this is a good move

I think this is a good move for Red Hat so they can offer a fuller spectrum of services for the Enterprise.

All they need to match what Microsoft offers is OpenOffice and MySQL!

[Andrew J Glina]

Impedance Mismatch

How geeky was that comment?! That takes me back to my RADAR days... ahhhh.