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Red Hat makes tons of money providing the foundations from which alot of the stated technologies can operate: Linux OS, JBoss middleware, cloud and virtualization technology, and major support for the biggie databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).

They're the guys selling the picks, sluice pans, and LAMPs (haha) for the gold miners.

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And MySQL don't receive any money from it, BTW.

Wait...Red Hat provides support for MySQL? The same Red Hat that is upset that Oracle (owner of MySQL) provides support for Red Hat (or a minor variant of Red Hat)? Interesting.

> Red Hat provides support for MySQL?

No. But it does have mysql packages in the distribution.

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