In a move to add more open-source arrows to its quiver, Linux seller Red Hat has acquired the Netscape server software products of Time Warner, the companies plan to announce Thursday.
In an interview Wednesday, Szulik (CEO, Red Hat) declined to comment on terms of the deal, but said the company spent less than $25 million on the acquisition.
The move expands Red Hat's open-source attack on competitors such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Novell that have proprietary products in the same market. Red Hat's new software includes Netscape Directory Server, used to manage information such as usernames and access policies, and Netscape Certificate Server, used to manage user identities and encryption chores.
The move also adds another chapter to the long story of Netscape, a start-up whose software helped to ignite the Internet mania of the 1990s.
America Online, now a unit of Time Warner, bought the Netscape products in 1998 when it acquired the company in a complicated $4.2 billion transaction.
[Red Hat acquires Netscape server software]
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