Disclaimer :

The Competition DG makes the information provided by the notifying parties in section 1.2 of Form CO available to the public in order to increase transparency. This information has been prepared by the notifying parties under their sole responsibility, and its content in no way prejudges the view the Commission may take of the planned operation. Nor can the Commission be held responsible for any incorrect or misleading information contained therein.

M.9205 – IBM/RED HAT

SECTION 1.2

Description of the concentration

The Transaction concerns the proposed acquisition of sole control by IBM of Red Hat.

IBM is active worldwide in the development, production, and marketing of a wide variety of information technology (“IT”) solutions, namely software, computer systems, storage devices, microelectronics, and services, including consulting and IT infrastructure services. Among its diverse software activities, IBM develops and sells software for cloud environment workloads.

Red Hat is a global provider of open source software solutions, using a communitypowered approach to develop and offer reliable and high-performing solutions that meet customers’ needs in hybrid cloud environments.

The Parties are both active in the development of certain categories of software, in particular middleware, containers, and server operating systems.

The Parties consider that the Transaction will help facilitate a secure, open, hybrid cloud computing model that will allow enterprises to select, workload by workload, where best to run them and store associated data—on-premises or in the private and public clouds—and to move freely both between those architectures and between different providers of those different architectures

Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË

Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.