Red Hat Set To Surpass Sun In Market Capitalization

mytrip writes "In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems' market capitalization for the first time. Sun, perhaps unfairly, represents a fading Unix market. Red Hat, for its part, represents the rising Linux market. Given enough time for its open-source strategy to play out, Sun's market capitalization will likely recover and outpace Red Hat's."

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Re:Wrong.

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According to Yahoo Finance (and I may be misreading stuff, being a novice investor and amateur trader), Sun lost money last year.

So Which business would you rather own: One that makes $24 or one that looses $1400?

Since both are expected to continue in the same direction (RHT posting greater profits while JAVA posts greater losses) The Market caps continue to trend in opposite directions.

At some point Sun will reverse that trend or it's parts will end up being worth more than the whole.