Red Hat to Acquire Netscape Enterprise Solutions

Looks like Red Hat just spent some of that $1B in cash/securities they are sitting on (they did after all say it was partly for acquisitions). With this deal they get the Netscape Directory and Certificate servers. The Netscape DirectoryServer is very similar to the Sun DS as they are both iPlanet forks. I'd guess this is as much of a result of having to compete with Novell and NDS as it is Microsoft/AD and Sun/SunOne. Single signon is something Linux sorely needs (the only real alternative now is cobbling something together with OpenLDAP and PAM – Enterprises don't want to do this). It looks like Novell has turned the Linux marketplace into one that requires what is now referred to as a “stack” to compete.
–jeremy