First Entry

this is the first entry for tech-cahoots, a blog dedicated to the discussion of IT partnerships. with the emergence of the linux and opensource movement the industry leaders are acquiring new companies, and building new partnerships that will change the current landscape.

much of this blog has been spurred by the recent acquisition of jboss by the linux leader red hat, which has caught the eye of many in the industry for the following reasons:

1. they are moving up the solution stack by offering an OS and an application server/middleware.
2. almost half of jboss's deployments have been on windows.
3. red hat is now competing head-to-head w/ other giants in the middleware market that includes the likes of oracle, msft, ibm, bea and sap.

red hat stock has grown 12% since the acquisition announcement, despite the early negative effects of oracle's CEO larry ellison's comments about wiping red hat off the market by either buying novell or creating/cloning their own linux distro.

so what is the right move for oracle? what's the right move for novell? the following discusion tries to offer possible insight to what should happen next.

Oracle Seeing Red Hat
Oracle Cheif Opens Door to Buying Novell