http://www.michaeldolan.com/1301 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.michaeldolan.com/1301/comment-page-1#comment-30623 md Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:43:15 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1301#comment-30623 Sometimes acquisitions happen or don't happen for very funny reasons (e.g. access to capital, IP overlap, internal acquisition models). It's hard to say, but I think the distinction here is that RH acquired the technology above the virtualization layer that will be great for managing the deployments. KVM will continue as a kernel project independent of any vendor, but it's the management tooling that RH just acquired that will give it an advantage in the market. Sometimes acquisitions happen or don’t happen for very funny reasons (e.g. access to capital, IP overlap, internal acquisition models). It’s hard to say, but I think the distinction here is that RH acquired the technology above the virtualization layer that will be great for managing the deployments. KVM will continue as a kernel project independent of any vendor, but it’s the management tooling that RH just acquired that will give it an advantage in the market.

]]> http://www.michaeldolan.com/1301/comment-page-1#comment-29721 Juan Marcos Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:16:22 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1301#comment-29721 I just listened to the Red Hat - Qumranet webcast and there was no talk about how long the companies have been negotiating the acquisition. Any ideas? I'm interested to know because it seemed like KVM and Qumranet would have been a perfect fit for Novell. How could Novell or others (Sun, Cisco, HP) have let this technology jewel get purchased right under their noses? I just listened to the Red Hat – Qumranet webcast and there was no talk about how long the companies have been negotiating the acquisition. Any ideas? I’m interested to know because it seemed like KVM and Qumranet would have been a perfect fit for Novell. How could Novell or others (Sun, Cisco, HP) have let this technology jewel get purchased right under their noses?

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