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Wow. I guess after months of speculation and crazy rumours it was inevitable that it was going to happen, but news this morning is that RedHat have bought JBoss for $350 million, 40% cash and 60% RedHat stock.</a

At least RedHat is more aligned to the open source model that JBoss was a major advocate for, and I expect not much will change with the JBoss product lineup for a while. I suspect this acquisition will be a relief compared to what might have happened to the company should someone like Oracle have bought the company, as was rumoured a couple of months ago.

Good luck to the new combined organization.

Peter Hofstee, one of the main designers behind the new 7 core CPU, the Cell, which will be powering the upcoming PS3 console, recently spoke at a lecture in Texas on the development and potential success of the Cell CPU.

Only time will tell now as we wait for the launch of the PS3 in November worldwide this year, plus hopefully an early look at this years E3 conference where Sony is expected to have playable consoles on the exhibition floor for people to play with.

The Cell, jointly developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony, had a $400 million investment from Sony. As Hofstee puts it, ‘this is about as serious as it gets’, in terms of Sony’s influence on the development of this new CPU.

Palmsource demonstrated it’s new Linux powered smartphones at the Linuxworld conference this week. Does this mean that Palmsource are abandoning the Palm OS?

Palmsource also made an annoucement about the new Linux based OS for its phones in February at the 3GSM World Congress – there are further details here on their website in a press release.