5:28 PM Red Hat's (RHT) acquisition of ManageIQ is aimed at VMware (VMW), suggests CEO Jim Whitehurst in a short interview. Though VMware has made decent enterprise traction with its vCloud management/provisioning platform, they're "almost nowhere in public cloud," declares Whitehurst, who thinks the preference among Internet companies for open-source solutions will help Red Hat. TechCrunch's Alex Williams, who notes ManageIQ supports Amazon Web Services, feels likewise.