If Novell is acquired, is it a red hat?

Private Equity Fund Elliott proposed the acquisition of Novell, which may lead to a shuffling of the software industry. But what is the impact on the entire open source software industry? If Novell is acquired, it is likely to trigger another wave of Merger and Acquisition boom. But will it also put pressure on the red hat? For many years, the market has been rumored that red hat is likely to be acquired, but over the years, Red Hat continues to hand over the new high-record financial quarterly report, while through the acquisition of Qumranet and JBoss, slowly expanding their infrastructure. However, if Nov

Private Equity Fund Elliott proposed the acquisition of Novell, which may lead to a shuffling of the software industry. But what is the impact on the entire open source software industry?

If Novell is acquired, it is likely to trigger another wave of Merger and Acquisition boom. But will it also put pressure on the red hat?

For many years, the market has been rumored that red hat is likely to be acquired, but over the years, Red Hat continues to hand over the new high-record financial quarterly report, while through the acquisition of Qumranet and JBoss, slowly expanding their infrastructure. However, if Novell's SUSE Linux Business falls into the hands of Oracle, VMware, or IBM, it is hard to say whether RedHat can maintain its independent operation status. If a large commercial software company takes control of SUSE Linux, it is likely to prompt other vendors to launch a M & A campaign against RedHat. If a red hat auction starts, other open-source companies may also be aware of this. Will Zenoss and Pentaho be canceled? The current situation is unclear, in part because the market value of open-source vendors is unclear.

Over the past year, open-source software has become the infrastructure of most software companies, as have Facebook and Digg. As open-source software becomes the standard operating program of many software vendors, the uniqueness of open-source marketing has weakened. Therefore, Marten Mickos claims that Oracle is the world's largest open-source company. I think this title is not Google, and others insist that this title should be retained to the red hat.

These companies are interested in using open source software, but they are more interested in promoting exclusive services, developer communities, or other purposes. From this point of view, even if Novell was acquired and triggered a red hat bid, it is doubtful whether it will drive a wave of broader source code companies' mergers and acquisitions.

So far, most open-source companies have been acquired by proprietary companies, such as Yahoo's purchase of Zimbra, VMware's purchase of SpringSource, and Citrix's purchase of XenSource. These mergers and acquisitions will not slow down or speed up due to the fate of Novell or RedHat.