If Oracle Commits to Solaris, Will IBM Buy Red Hat?

Katherine Egbert has predicted (again) that Red Hat will be bought, this time by IBM. While I have indulged my own Red Hat acquisition fantasies in the past, I just can’t see a near-term acquisition of Red Hat by IBM.

Unless….

Unless, as Egbert predicts, Oracle will throw its weight fully behind Sun’s Solaris, to the detriment of its Linux business…