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Open Source acquisitions

Posted Sep 4, 2008 15:12 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
Parent article: Red Hat acquires Qumranet

It certainly makes sense, KVM is rapidly winning mind-share over Xen type approaches and has a better track record with working with the kernel community.

I'm guessing the acquisition process is a lot easier with Open Source companies. The technology is in the open and there is no bar to working with them while you do your due diligence. However I wonder if it implies there will be a relatively static number of big players with deep pockets who hoover up teams of engineers around a certain technology?


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