Red Hat is the grandfather... and all the rest of the open source companies are emulating their business model. It's important for people behind to see that there's a healthy business ahead.

Marten Mickos

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Ask Red Hat [about it]. We have a wonderful business as of today.

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Customers can try on the shoes before they buy them. The model just makes sense.

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We're [also] eager to work with Microsoft. Forty percent of our installed base are on Windows. We want to better serve them.

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We are not used in all the ERP stuff. We are adding those features, but we are not going to be running PeopleSoft applications any time.

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It's good for open source – it validates the value that open source provides.

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