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Synergies and Cultures

, April 21, 2006 @ 11:45 pm ET

Bill Burke, Chief Architect at JBoss, posted a blog entry this week entitled “Synergies and Cultures” about the Red Hat acquisition and the process of merging two cultures. Take a look.

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2 Responses to “Synergies and Cultures”

  1. Jeb Bolding says:
    April 24, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    How much do you think this really matters to the Open Source world? Neither JBoss nor Redhat are what I’d call typical Scions of the Open Source community. Both have taken numerous raps as being out of touch with the Open Source ethic in trying to corporatize their software, companies and vision.

    While this is a big deal for those open source founded companies looking for a successful (i.e. profitable) exit strategy, won’t the bulk of the open source developers yawn and continue their path?

  2. Annerose says:
    July 10, 2007 at 1:12 pm

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