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Re: Lotus is porting their prog's...!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Mon Nov 9 15:51:46 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:17:11 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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TIM SOFTWARE wrote:
>
> BTW You certainly heard that Intel and Netscape made investments into
> RedHat Software. IMHO its software may become very expensive now,
> because Intel and Netscape will want to return more money from that
> investment.
Don't count on it. All the press so far has been consistent on a couple
of points:
1. The investments which RH got from those companies (and two venture
capital firms) were minority stakes, which means that none of them will
be able to exercise major influence over RedHat at the executive level;
2. RedHat is using that money to boost their enterprise programs, not in
the OS portion of their business.
Remember why Intel and Netscape are interested in RedHat: it isn't
because they want to make money from RedHat directly, it's because if
RedHat does well, then they all stand a better chance of competing
against the Great Evil. Also recall that RedHat has been in positive
numbers since they started, without charging exhorbitant rates for their
products.
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Michael Jinks
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