Red Hat Nixes Database Acquisition Strategy
It wasn't more than five or six seconds after Red Hat Inc announced it was acquiring open source Java middleware and application development tool provider JBoss Inc a few weeks ago that the entire IT industry starting wondering what Red Hat might do next. The most obvious thing for Red Hat to do now would seem to be to go farther up the software stack and deliver its own database. But don't count on Red Hat doing that any time soon.
Or rather, don't count on Red Hat repeating its past. For those of you who have a good memory, you will recall that in September 2002, about six months after Red Hat announced its Advanced Server enterprise edition of the Linux operating system and started going after Unix workloads in a big way, it announced Red Hat Database 2.0, which was based on the open source PostgreSQL 7.2.2 relational database.
Technically speaking, Red Hat initially backed the right open source database horse when it picked PostgreSQL, but the bet didn't pay off because MySQL has become wickedly popular and has matured.
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