SAP to buy Red Hat?

[ponder]

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/08/24/red-hat-will-sap-acquire-linux-leader/
http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/8180415/

Here we go again...

 

[MyWorld]

No, not South African Police, but these okes rather:
http://www.sap.com/index.epx

 

[Logicklz]

No, not South African Police, but these okes rather:
http://www.sap.com/index.epx

mmm...
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8610/8k1xhdlq.png
mmm...

 

[ponder]

No, not South African Police, but these okes rather:
http://www.sap.com/index.epx

You did not think I confused SAP with SAPS?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Seems like everyone at some point wanted to buy RH :/

 

[milomak]

hope not. you need major linux distros like RH standing alone

given RH's importance in the server market if they can remain independent it is largely preferable. SAP should buy Ubuntu.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

hope not. you need major linux distros like RH standing alone

given RH's importance in the server market if they can remain independent it is largely preferable. SAP should buy Ubuntu.

Nope - we need independent distro's.

SAP can make their own distro.

 

[milomak]

Nope - we need independent distro's.

SAP can make their own distro.

it was a tongue in cheek comment that in the grerater good of things, leave RH and target another distro (not Debian mind). Mandriva actually stands out.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

it was a tongue in cheek comment that in the grerater good of things, leave RH and target another distro (not Debian mind). Mandriva actually stands out.

Like Novell acquired openSuSE.

Might not be a bad thing - they can tune that specific distro to their needs.

 

[MyWorld]

You did not think I confused SAP with SAPS?

Nope, I just had no clue as to who SAP was until I Googled it. In the past SAP for me was Police.

 

[ponder]

Nope, I just had no clue as to who SAP was until I Googled it. In the past SAP for me was Police.

What, you've never seen the SAP logo before in sports sponsorship, hell Ernie Else is a walking billboard for SAP

 

[kingrob]

SAP should buy Ubuntu.

Google should buy Ubuntu, they're using it a lot.

 

[Bizkit87]

What, you've never seen the SAP logo before in sports sponsorship, hell Ernie Else is a walking billboard for SAP

lol, that was my answer in my first SAP job interview:

Interviewer: "What do you know about SAP?"
Me: "TBH, nothing except that they sponsor Ernie Els"

even more strange, i got that job