Red Hat, the company of Red Hat Linux, has acquired JBoss Inc., owners of Hibernate and also the employers of the NHibernate lead developer. Read more about this on the hibernate blog
For some time now the rumour was going around that Oracle wanted to buy JBoss, but apparently this deal never went through. What this means for the .NET activities of JBoss in the long run isn't clear. Red Hat doesn't have a Mono strategy for example.
Hurray! 
. Microsoft made me a C# MVP again! 