Red Hat CEO Targets Oracle, Microsoft

January 4, 2008 By MIKE BAKER , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday - his fourth day on the job - that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as a struggle to protect information sharing in software development.

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