Red Hat buys Hell's Kitchen Systems for $80M

Anonymous Coward writes "Yahoo reports Red Hat is buying this e-commerce company. Their product (credit card verification system) appears to be closed-sourced." I called Melissa London at Red Hat to find out the scoop; it's all open source above the API. Below that, the verification system makes use of the financial institution's proprietary protocols, which are made available to HKS under NDA. It's not perfect, but until the banks get clueful, it's the best we can hope for.

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Jan 5, 2002

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Jan 5, 2002

Why can't Red Hat let anyone else into the market? Ever since they drove Microsoft into bankruptcy they've bought every conceivable service on the planet. They have their little red logo on everything, and whenever someone looks to buy an OS it's either Apple or Red Hat. Why do they have to bundle every conceivable service with their systems??? I want to go with a BSD at work, but my boss won't let us because "Everything works better if it's all Red Hat." 90% market share is a pain in the neck no mater who has it. And while I'm on it, why do I need an Athelon 190 Gigahertz and half Tetrabyte of Ram to run their GUI?!?!?!?! I remember when a Merced with a gig of ram was all you needed for SERIOUS computing!

BTW: Mozilla 18.63 still sucks. No browser download should be 200 megs. What happened to the nice, clean, small 40 meg download from not too long ago. It's getting to the point where us poor cheapskates with a pokey SDSL connection can't get along anymore!