CNET Technology Information Network September 30: For the expansion of open source product lineup, Linux distributor Red Hat Company (Red Hat) announced on the 30th that the Netscape server software is acquired to AOL Time Warner. Red Hat plans to change the online Enterprise Suite to open source software, so that anyone can use, modify, and resolve this software. Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik, is scheduled to represent the analyst briefing on the 30th, which is the latest step in the company's "Open Source Architecture" program that expands in the field of the core product -Linux operating system. When accepted on the 29th, Szulik did not want to disclose the conditions of this transaction, only to say that the purchase cost is less than 2, 5 million US dollars. Introducing new software, assisting Red Hat "further in-depth enterprise and government market", long-lasting month may help to improve the price of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. New software will be included in the current product of Red Hat in the next six months. Red Hat expands open source product lineup, intentional is also the strength of competing with Sun, Microsoft, Novell, etc., these companies have launched proprietary software and Red Hat in the same market. Red Hat new software contains Netscape Directory Server for managing user names and access policies, and Netscape Certificate Server for managing users identity and encryption. The history of netizos also enters a new chapter. The browser software of Netscape Assist the Internet boom in the 1990s, but later in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser is strongly competitive, and the 1998 AOL has acquired net views and its products through $ 4.2 billion, one of the transaction conditions. Sun acquires the intellectual property rights of Netscape, used in Iplanet, Sun Open Network Environment, and current Java Enterprise System and other products. However, the Nets Software acquired by Red Hat is very different from Sun. Joe Keller, Vice President of Sun Application and Development Platform: "Red Hat bought antique software." He criticized Red Hat's tactics, "I used to provide the best open source software, now it is the oldest Old business software is bought, and then modified into open source. " However, the server software of Netscape is not from not growing since 1998. The acquisition transaction includes a programming team that receives net views dissatisfied with 50 people, Szulik, and directory software has also been adopted by HP UNIX website servers. The relationship between Sun and Red Hat is also a friend, although it is a business partner, and it is also competed with each other. Red Hat Open Source Code Thermal echoed with the policy of Netscape in 1998. At that year, Netscape also made the source code of the browsing software, and strive to break the market's daily increased Microsoft IE browser. However, Netscape Server Software has always maintained private. Red Hat chooses which authorization to spread the net view software, it is not known. But Szulik revealed that the company tends to adopt a public universal authorization (GPL) that manages Linux. He also revealed that the Red Hat took the initiative to find AOL to discuss online. Szulik said: "We continue to be small, intelligent, rich in connotation, and quickly integrate our open source architecture." (Tang Huiwen)
