{"id":121,"date":"2006-04-11T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/04\/open-source-buyouts-continue.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T13:27:00","slug":"open-source-buyouts-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/open-source-buyouts-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source buyouts continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/softwaretopics\/software\/story\/0,10801,110365,00.html?source=NLT_PM&amp;nid=110365\">Red Hat to buy JBoss for at least $350M &#8211; Computerworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s waiting for this market to develop independently. They&#8217;re buying in before they have a chance to get swamped by new competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat to buy JBoss for at least $350M &#8211; 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&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/open-source-buyouts-continue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}