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Frankly, I'm not sure why Google would acquire RedHat, SAP or Oracle.Enterprise distribution. Without significant enterprise revenue, Google Cloud will never catch up to AWS and Azure. Nobody can beat Google on technology, but technology alone cannot solve this.
> I'm not sure what will be gain from that. Google probably doesn't care about the softwares these companies provides as it has its own internal alternatives/derivative and Google is not really a software vendor, so it's a bit outside of their core business.
Google Cloud absolutely is a software vendor. They sell cloud services which compete directly with traditional enterprise software. Their services are superior in many ways, but enterprise adoption is definitely not one of them. That is the problem they could solve by buying an enterprise-savvy competitor.
As a bonus, these traditional software vendors are all racing to deploy cloud versions of their software. Because they have massive install bases, they can drive enterprise workloads to the cloud of their choice.
What would make more sense in my opinion would be for Google to have a partnership with a big Enterprise player (or several in fact) and promote it loudly.
They are already partnering aggressively, just like their competitors. I think they announced exactly this with SAP recently.
But partnerships have their limits. Most vendors will not allow themselves to grow too dependent on their main competitors. If they did, they would lose all leverage in the deal, and slowly starve as Big Cloud grabs all the margins. And then we're back to the acquisition scenario.