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Red Hat earnings shrug off Oracle threat

 December 21, 2006 Linux seller's net income drops, but revenue rises; executives say competition from Oracle hasn't taken customers away. TAGS: net income, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, stock option, Oracle Corp., earnings, Linux seller, acquisition, pricing, Linux, CEO

Sending the penguins out with a hot foot

 October 27, 2006 perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Oracle Open World, Borland Software Corp., announcement, Siebel Systems Inc., profit margin, PeopleSoft Inc., open-source company, open source, acquisition, CEO, database, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Red Hat revenue up, profit down

 March 29, 2007 Rising expenses--including the JBoss acquisition--cut into Linux seller's revenue; net income drops 25 percent. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., JBoss, net income, Oracle Corp., Linux seller, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, acquisition, expense, server software, open-source software, Linux, Yahoo! Inc., training, server, open source

This week in OpenWorld news

 December 10, 2004 At Oracle's OpenWorld conference, Michael Dell chides the Lenovo-IBM deal. Also: Oracle chief Larry Ellison' deja vu keynote speech. TAGS: Larry Ellison, keynote speech, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Red Hat Inc., Dell, merger, conference, Lenovo, acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., server, Linux, database, operating system

Oracle OpenWorld takes the stage

 October 26, 2006 special coverage Business software maker opens arms to partners, making an incursion into the Linux market. Photo: Ellison announces Red Hat support Photos: Mr. Ruiz, meet Mr. Dell Video: Dell's AM... TAGS: Oracle Corp., margin, business software company, Oracle Open World, Red Hat Inc., mainframe, Linux, Web 2.0, acquisition, Mr., software company, font, Dell, server, photograph

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

 April 10, 2006 Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., ecosystem, BEA Systems Inc., open source, acquisition, open-source company, middleware, open-source software, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, Java, IBM Corp., CEO

Year in review: Grappling with open source

 December 19, 2006 As open source becomes pervasive, software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are adapting in different ways. TAGS: JBoss, open source, Novell Inc., AJAX, GPL, IBM DB2, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., middleware, MySQL, IBM Corp., Linux, acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc., database, Microsoft Corp.
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