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Given Oracle's prior acquisition history, it is not opposed to making more than one large acquisition back-to-back before integration is complete. For example, after chasing PeopleSoft for a year, it agreed to acquire it in December 2004 in a $10.3 billion deal. Then in September 2005, it agreed to purchase Siebel Systems for $5.8 billion. Additionally, it purchased Hyperion Solutions in March 2007 for $3.3 billion, then nine months later purchased BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Red Hat is a perfect fit for Oracle given the market's preference of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system with Oracle's software, and Oracle's inability after two years of selling its rival Oracle Unbreakable Linux to extricate itself from that relationship. However, the case for an IBM purchase of Red Hat put forth by Egbert is equally strong. Indeed, IBM and Oracle may be competing head to head to buy Red Hat, which may make it Ellison's biggest challenge since PeopleSoft. - Matthew Wurtzel See story from Cnet
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A hot topic in tech dealmaking circles since Oracle Corp.'s (NASDAQ:ORCL) $7 billion agreement to purchase Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) is the future of Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. (NYSE:RHT). Dealscape recently 
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The best idea is that all those companies become large shareholders of Red Hat instead of one company owning it. Such an alliance has much more power.