Re:Red Hat should buy Applix (Score 1)

If Red Hat wants to be "the" one you are right, they will need to add to their lineup. The true bells and whistles they will need are the RAD tools. This scenario is already playing itself out in the public markets( see Motorola paying up for Metrowerks to get their CodeWarrior tool). Logic would dicate then that Red Hat would want to buy the companies with the best tools. Having just returned from the recent expo I saw a handful of RAD tool companies, but the one that stood head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion (as well as others as is evidenced by their winning the "Best Tool Company" award )was Omnis Technology. Omnis "Web Client" enables you to build a web-enabled solution rapidly without writing code in Java. In a demonstration at the show, they demonstrated an application and web-enabled it within five minutes without writing a line of code in Java or HTML. It is to my knowledge the only environment which one can write and deploy in any platform without any tweaking of code at all. Further it can access all databases. I would think Red Hat would be interested in a company like this, with a non-existent market cap, to get their RAD tools.