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Sound Bites From the SOPA Strike

Arik Hesseldahl in Media on January 18 at 5:22 pm PT

A roundup of some of the interesting comments made about SOPA and PIPA during today’s Web-wide protest against the bills.

HP’s Whitman: We Have to Walk Before We Can Run With webOS

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT

HP CEO Meg Whitman and director Marc Andreessen talk about the commitment HP plans to make to its new open source project.

Now That's Big Data: Apple Orders 12 Petabytes of Storage Gear From EMC

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 6, 2011 at 11:42 am PT

Apple’s new cloud-based iteration of iTunes will need some serious data storage. According to one report, the company has turned to the newly acquired EMC unit Isilon Systems to get it, and in a big way.

IBM to Buy Red Hat…Someday…Maybe

John Paczkowski in News on May 15, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Red Hat is destined to be acquired, most likely by IBM–according to Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert, anyway. Noting that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems is bad news for Red Hat, Egbert says the open-source outfit is going to need a partner sooner or later and that IBM may well volunteer for the position.

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Oracle Shopping List: SaaS, Virtualization, Health Care

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on March 24, 2009 at 4:26 pm PT

Yesterday’s rumors about a potential acquisition by Oracle of Red Hat have apparently faded, but Larry Ellison’s appetite for doing deals is never sated. Whether or not Oracle decides to take a run at Red Hat, it is not going out on a limb to suggest that at some point Ellison is going to get the itch and make more acquisitions.

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Red Hat Shares Slide as Q3 Guidance Disappoints

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on September 25, 2008 at 2:49 pm PT

Red Hat (RHT) shares are trading lower in an otherwise upbeat session for tech stocks, after the company last night provided lower-than-expected guidance for its fiscal third quarter ending November.

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Red Hat Buys Virtualization Company; VMW, CTXS Slide

Eric Savitz, Columnist and Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on September 4, 2008 at 11:20 am PT

Competition is intensifying in the virtualization sector. Red Hat (RHT) this morning announced an agreement to acquire Qumranet, an Israeli company that provides a virtualization software platform, for $107 million in cash.