Unless Microsoft offers some of their billions of cash to support this “partner” behind the scenes (ala SCO), I suspect that RH, Dell, HP, et al have enough deep pockets and deep benches of legal beagles to bankrupt this little company- especially if there is any prior art or they can show that it is trivial or obvious.
I seem to remember a couple of other patent troll companies who have ended up with the extremely short end of the stick after trying to extort beeelyuns and beeeelyuns of sheckels from some well heeled companies on software patent actions recently.
And with their “partner” IBM having been on the receiving end of some of these patent troll actions, I would suspect that IBM will soon be known as a “former partner”.
Just my thoughts...
Whats bod for JBoss is good for IBM with BEA putting Weblogic prices up high JBoss had become the cheap alternative to WAS