Nokia Partners with Red Hat (Techtree.com)

Nokia Partners with Red Hat (Techtree.com)

Hmmm. Fate would seem to be smiling upon North Carolina. This deal. The open-sourcing of Java... days after Novell's deal with MS backfired, causing increased apprehension about Mono's legal standing, instead of inspiring confidence in it, as Novell had intended.

Good news for JBoss. Good news for RedHat.

From what I am hearing, Oracle customers, unhappy with Oracle's support, are in no hurry to switch their OS support contract from RedHat to Oracle. And Johnny Hughes, of CentOS, is reporting that Oracle's verion of RHEL is pretty shoddy.

For a "mortally wounded" company, RedHat seems to be doing pretty well in this "direst of times".

Hey, they may not be perfect. But it looks like if you look to the long term, stand by your principles, provide value, don't try to lock your customers in, and treat them right... you can be successful and fulfill your committment to your investors... all at the same time. A little luck doesn't hurt, either. ;-) (Nor does a lineup of top-notch employees who share the vision.)

BTW, I don't think that you can do all that only half way and come out all right. I also think that you can't do it without truly believing, in your corporate soul, that the strategy will gain you rewards.

i.e. Novell does not have what it takes.

The jury is still out on Sun, but I am beginning to think that they might just have what it takes.

Wouldn't that be cool? :-)

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