Sep 30, 2004
RedHat expands
“In a move to add more open-source arrows to its quiver, Linux seller Red Hat has acquired the Netscape server software products of AOL Time Warner, the companies plan to announce Thursday. Red Hat plans to release the Netscape Enterprise Suite as open-source software, meaning that anyone will be able to use, modify and redistribute the products. It’s a new step in Red Hat’s “open-source architecture” plan to expand beyond its core product, the Linux operating system, Chief Executive Matthew Szulik plans to tell analysts at a company conference Thursday in New York.”
RedHat is already an important force in open source software and with this addition they should be able to take an even more important position, especially when it comes to enterprise systems, which is what they’ve focused on since they stopped making their Linux OS available for free.