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Red Hat Explains ArsDigita Purchase

Posted by Hemos on from the good-move-by-the-hat dept.

hezron writes "Red Hat VP, Howard Jacobson, sent a mass email explaining their acquisition of ArsDigita's assets. Here is the press release concerning the acquisition." The press release is actually a quick FAQ about the purchase - Howard does a good job of explaining the purchase and the reasons for it. Howard's a smart guy, and I hope that the purchase of AD will mean a longer life then how AD's past management was handling it.

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  1. I like RedHat but... by FurryFeet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is this really the right time to buy a new, troubled company? I applaud the effort to save Ars Digita, but there is a reason it had gone under...
    Somehow, I think a company should refrain from acquisitions until it is comfortably in the black itself. I'd hate for RedHat to burn through its reserves faster than necesary.

  2. Let's define what a CMS is... by Dalroth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've heard a lot about CMSs and ArsDigita in particular, but I'm not entirely up on my CMS terminology.

    I poked around on the ArsDigita pages, but what I found was a lot of marketing and buzzword crap, and no really good to the point explanation on what it is. I don't have the time to read all the marketing B.S., so I'm hoping somebody here can get straight to the point and tell me what this is all about.

    If I were to download and install the ArsDigita CMS, what exactly would that buy me?

    Is it a collection of APIs for developing web pages?
    Is it a templating engine for generating markup?
    Is it a kind of uber-Wiki?
    Is it a message board system?
    Is it some online collaborative environmnet like Source Forge?
    It it an online publishing system like Slash or PostNuke?

    Help me get to the point!

    Bryan

  3. Then/than? *argh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "a longer life THAN..." not "a longer life THEN..."

    Is it TOO much to ask supposed "editors" to actually make sure that what they write (and expect us to PAY for) is at least vaguely grammatically correct?

    *sheesh*

  4. Re:Step one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    " Now if they'd just get Phil back."

    Riiiight.

    Just what they need...someone to take his golden $6M parachute.

    I feel bad for the poor guy.

  5. Re: I have, but... by t · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Ok, I will tell you why functional languages do not compile directly to assembly but first I need to translate what you implied:

    If the O'Caml compiler generated the ASM code directly it could make serious optimizations and not have to deal with the cruft the C compiler adds.

    It seems to me that you, like many linux users, are really saying "why don't they compile directly to x86!" The world is bigger than x86. Most scripting languages want to be cross-platform. And no that does not mean run on windows and linux-x86.

    If you took a second to look at how much code gcc is then you would realize how fscking big a task that is.

    t.

  6. Hah! A face saving move... by aquarian · · Score: 3, Insightful
    RedHat's 'purchase' of Ars Digita allows Greylock to bury the aD losses in the RH books

    You're being way too polite... this was nothing but a face-saving move by the vulture capitalists... better than just saying the company tanked and shut its doors (which is the real truth).