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Saturday, 28 April 2007

Red Hat Acquires MetaMatrix

There have been several BI-related acquisitions of late. One that has received little attention is Red Hat's proposed acquisition of MetaMatrix. At first sight it seems odd for an open source Linux vendor to acquire a BI product. After discussions with several BI vendors and thinking about it for a while this acquisition does have some logic to it.