Red Hat to buy JBoss for at least $350M – Computerworld

So Red Hat is going to be a consolidator rather than being consolidated. It would be interesting to see an industry giant emerge with a pure open-source pedigree. It’s also interesting to see how quickly these open-source companies are getting snapped up. Some of them only got funding in the last year. No one’s waiting for this market to develop independently. They’re buying in before they have a chance to get swamped by new competition.