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OnStrategies' Tony Baer wrote an ebizQ article recently about the possibility of Oracle buying JBoss. Here are Tony's comment on today's news:

"This is Red Hat's attempt to graft JBoss onto the LAMP stack. More importantly, this is part of Red Hat's strategy to solidy its position as the de facto open source platform. For JBoss, Red Hat is obviously a more compatible partner than Oracle, which was the rumor a couple months ago. It's obvious that both have business models that are mutually in sync.

"Given the acquistion rumors that have swirled around JBoss for the last several months, it's clear that this was not only another typical example of the exit strategy for successful startup, but that the company required deeper pockets if it was to further its growth.

"It will be interesting to see if the mutual support agreement with Microsoft will survive this acquistion, and in general, how this impacts Microsoft's open source coopotion strategy in general."

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