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Red Hat saved CygnusRed Hat saved CygnusPosted Jul 28, 2007 6:43 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) by csawtell Parent article: Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch) In the period before the Red Hat acquisition of Cygnus, Cygnus was going in an increasingly proprietary direction, with some friction between their proprietary-thinking marketing people and their developers, who grew up hacking the GNU tools. They wanted an IPO and thought they had to have cool "intellectual property" for the investors to buy. Red Hat saved them from that, moving them much more strongly in a free software direction. Speaking as someone who was a Cygnus customer back in the 1990s, I'm happy about the way that turned out. They did deemphasize the embedded systems business, which is too bad; there was perhaps a synergy there that Red Hat didn't exploit that allowed other companies like MontaVista to take over the embedded Linux space. But many of the people who hacked the GNU tool chain as Cygnus employees still hack the GNU tool chain as Red Hat employees.
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Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Jul 28, 2007 14:48 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] They did deemphasize the embedded systems business, which is too bad; there was perhaps a synergy there that Red Hat didn't exploit that allowed other companies like MontaVista to take over the embedded Linux space. Embedded space wanted (and still want) closeable systems and that's not what RedHat wanted and wants. I think few years down the road there will be opportunity for the RedHat to reenter this space, but what they did after Cygnus acquisition was 100% correct.
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Jul 29, 2007 0:14 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Curiously enough, at the time of the acquisition it was the ambition to control "the embedded space", projected as a $500M market, that drove both Cygnus and Red Hat. It was only after the event that RH and the rest of the industry discovered that their ambitions were overblown.
Red Hat saved Cygnus Posted Aug 3, 2007 15:51 UTC (Fri) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link] Well, I don't know what all the thinking was (either in terms of the managers who came from Red Hat or those who came from Cygnus), but even before the acquisition there was awareness that the embedded market is a challenging one (chiefly because it is really many markets, and you can't sell one product/service across the whole "embedded market").
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