[Am-info] AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[John Poltorak]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:30:27AM -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:
> --- From a message sent by John Bryan on 1/19/02 10:12 AM ---
> 
> >http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html
> >
> >By Alec Klein,
> >Washington Post Staff Writer
> >Saturday, January 19, 2002; 9:14 AM
> >
> >AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy Red Hat Inc., a prominent 
> >distributor of a computer operating system, an acquisition that would 
> >position the media giant to challenge arch rival Microsoft Corp., 
> >according to sources familiar with the matter.
> >
> >more...
> 
> This development is really puzzling. What possible use could AOL-TW have 
> for Red Hat? About as much as they did for Netscape? Even less, I'd 
> think, since they don't get any unique technology from Red Hat.

Maybe they don't know that :-)...

Red Hat is a well known brand though and is a bigger company than any 
other Linux distro AFAIK.

 
>  Mitch Stone  
>  mitch@accidentalexpert.com


-- 
John