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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

OK, so Novell just bought SuSE for $210 million. I see this as good for
the Linux community, a recognition that Linux is really being taken
seriously and will be even more so in the future. 

So why did RHAT take an 8% dive today and even larger dive yesterday?

I can only imagine a few scenarios:

 - investors had hoped for a merger/buyout of Red Hat by Novell?

 - Novell paid far too little for the #2 company, and/or they see RHAT's
   $2B market cap as overvalued?

 - investors see this as a bad sign for Red Hat because now their #1
   competitor has the corporate backing of Novell?

 - it's a temporary thing caused by people ditching RHAT for NOVL?

Any clues? I can't make sense of it. 

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