If Oracle purchases Redhat...

...I quit.

Seriously, nothing good comes out of Oracle acquisitions. Larry Ellison and the Oracle monstrosity should stick with the database that made them so popular. In my opinion, Oracle has completely failed to integrate any open-source technology successfully. Talk to any middle-ware administrator and ask their opinion on OAS vs. others and you will likely find very few who would choose OAS over any of the latter. Oracle is trying to make moves too quickly in this space. They should put some real strategy together and give it time to grow, similar to what Sun Microsystems has done with open source technologies. If this acquisition does happen, it will be absolute zero kelvin for Redhat innovation. Not that Redhat had much going for it since they spun off as the Redhat Empire with the Fedora slave in tow, and ruined a great thing.

They will erase the trademark... Over the past few years many organizations have migrated to a Redhat platform, due primarily licensing to costs. Oracle is interested in buying it's customers back at a discounted price. There is nothing innovative about this. This is about growth, stock price and customer base. Oh, well, the writing was on the wall when Redhat went public anyway. Bye, it was fun...