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> This is a great move for both companies. The doom and gloom in this thread is depressing. RedHat gets access to IBMs massive sales machine and IBM picks up a number of key technologies. Win-win.

If you review HP's acquisitions, you can see the "worst case scenario."

IE, what if they just drive the acquisition into a ditch?

When I worked at HP, we saw lots of customers who needed automation software, and it seemed like nobody at HP was even aware that we offered a competitive product. (Opsware aka "hp server automation.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlet...




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