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rmk
Why is the purchase price not revealed? Is this usually a sign of a soft failure for a VC-funded company?
zapita
Yes. And Red Hat is not known for splurging on pre-profitability M&A. This was relatively cheap. I’m going to take a wild guess and say $100M?
jchonphoenix
Stackrox raised a round a few months ago so I'd expect the outcome to be positive here
generated
"Consistent with Red Hat’s open source heritage, Red Hat plans to open source StackRox’s technology post acquisition."

Is this normal for red hat acquisitions?

emptysongglass
Yes, unlike Mozilla they have always followed through on this promise.
asddubs
what is this in reference to?
epilys
Pocket, in particular the server side of it