Red Hat partners impacted by deal

摘要

Red Hat Inc.'s planned purchase of open-source middleware vendor JBoss Inc. could result in Red Hat partners such as IBM Corp. beginning or expanding relationships with other Linux distribution players, notably Novell Inc., analysts said this month. "Novell will probably call IBM and say, 'Let's do something,'" said James Governor, analyst with RedMonk. "Maybe Debian will benefit and maybe IBM can show them some love." Debian is another Linux distribution.