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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: linuxrat (叫我老鼠错不了), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: RedHat to by Be? [Forward] <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Dec 30 17:53:32 1999) <BR> <BR> 呵呵, 今天是跟Be OS干上了. 要不是没有中文, 我有可能现在就在那里先 <BR> 爬一会SMTH了. 只是可惜啊....希望下个世纪就没有了遗憾的说... <BR>================================================================== <BR> Posted 17/12/99 11:15am by Tony Smith <BR> <BR> Red Hat to buy Be? <BR> <BR> Even as rumours that Red Hat is about to buy Corel are moving back <BR> onto the Linux watcher's radar screen, so has a further item of <BR> tittle-tattle that the best-known open source operation is about to <BR> buy alternative OS vendor Be. <BR> Indeed, Be's shares rose 49 per cent yesterday, to $37.56, apparently <BR> on the back of the rumour. Neither company has yet commented on the <BR> claim. <BR> One analyst, Charles Payne of Wall Street Strategies, cited by <BR> Bloomberg, said Be's software would add applications that Red Hat's <BR> software doesn't offer -- neglecting to realise that the two operating <BR> systems, while structurally similar (kernel, shell, graphical UI) <BR> aren't compatible, and BeOS is no less proprietary than Windows 2000. <BR> That said, those very structural similarities would make BeOS a <BR> candidate for a move into the open source world. Strip out the <BR> existing (and handily Unix-like) kernel and slide in a modified <BR> version of the Linux kernel with BeOS' rather fine journaling file <BR> system tacked-on, and you've got a version of Linux with an series of <BR> media-oriented API and a top-notch GUI light years ahead of KDE and <BR> Gnome. <BR> Sounds an interesting plan, but the Linuxisation of BeOS would be <BR> tantamount to an admission of failure on Be's part, a confession that <BR> it can't after all compete with the open source OS. Be itself is doing <BR> reasonably well an OS vendor, with a small but solid band of <BR> supporters, and is pushing hard to make it big in the information <BR> appliance market. <BR> From that perspective, it doesn't need Red Hat. So unless Jean-Louis <BR> Gassee wants to cash in his shares or swap them for more valuable Red <BR> Hat ones (assuming some kind of share-for-shares acquisition), he's <BR> little reason to shake hands with Bob Young, Matthew Szulik and co. <BR> Red Hat, on the other hand, needs Be rather more. Getting Be's <BR> technology and putting it into the Linux domain would give its <BR> distribution a major lead in functionality. But such is the open <BR> source philosophy, Red Hat would have hand it over to everyone else, <BR> and any advantage would soon be lost. <BR> Of course, Red Hat could offer the Be shell, GUI and APIs separately <BR> under its own, non-GNU licence, but that would surely nuke the <BR> company's open source credibility. The alternative is to offer BeOS as <BR> an operating system in its own right, but again that presents a <BR> conflict with Red Hat's open source roots and would surely lead to a <BR> blurring of Red Hat's message: is it a Linux company or not? <BR> All of which would suggest the details of the rumour are incorrect, <BR> and that the two companies have probably been talking about Red Hat <BR> taking investing in Be, licensing some of its technology or both. The <BR> latter course would involve a shift by Be towards the open source <BR> model, but Gassee's a shrewd enough guy to see the advantages of <BR> moving that way without going the whole hog -- just as his alma mater, <BR> Apple, has done with its Darwin open source project. <BR> One thing does seem clear: the guys at Be and Red Hat have probably <BR> been chatting. Whether anything comes of their conversation -- apart <BR> from a small lift to Be's share price -- we'll just have to wait and <BR> see. (more here? rat doesn't know. It just show me end there. :( ) <BR> <BR>==================== End posting======================== <BR>-- <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR>| 以无法为有法 , | 拳本无法,有法也空; | 我爱GNU/Linux, | <BR>| 以无限为有限 | 一法不立,无法不容。| 因为我爱自由! | <BR>| | | | <BR>| 截拳道宗师-李小龙 | 意拳宗师-王芗斋 | 土人 Linuxrat | <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 smth.org·[FROM: 202.112.168.252] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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