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Tiny Red Hat


Publication:	p2pnet.net	Date:	Nov 05 2004
Reporter:	Peter White

If we told you that a company was amassing a cash stockpile which was three and a half times its current annual revenues, that it has employed a new director who used to work for Cisco, that it has acquired a business last week and also had a brand new CFO that was used to working in far, far larger companies, you’d think that this was a company hellbent on acquisition. And you’d be right.

So if we tell you that it’s a US software company that’s been about for more than a decade, you might guess it is Oracle perhaps, or one of the big business intelligence firms like Cognos, or a software development business like BEA.

It is, in fact, tiny Red Hat, primed and ready to take its long awaited place in the big time, by going on a spending spree, buying technology to fit around its almost ubiquitous enterprise Linux implementation.