[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Leam Hall]

Some CentOS folks were funded by RH.SuSE actually has/had a SLES that runs
on Z. Cool stuff.

My view, absent facts, is that RH was moving to a purely container hosting
OS. That's the only sane reason for systemd. Given some of their other
moves, I think/thought they were trying to leap frog VMWare. Now I have no
idea, but I do have friends who work there.

Leam


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:52 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> IBM buys a revenue stream then squeezes the budget the produces that
> revenue until every one quits. So they then off-shore the workforce until
> the customers get fed up with crappy/non-existent service/quality and go
> elsewhere.
>
> Since RedHat has huge DoD support contracts and IBM has been squeezed out
> from Fed contracts in the past for shady business dealing, buying RedHat
> leverages the support need into a blind eye for more shady business deals.
>
> Banks are turning away from AIX and towards RedHat. So this pulls the
> banks back to IBM (kicking and crying).
>
> Maybe SuSE can step up to fill the RHEL shoes. They are 1/10 the size and
> owned by a mixed bag tech corp. Ubuntu doesn't have/spend the cash to
> support a call center with a datacenter packed with every vendors hardware
> at half the revenue of SuSE. Debian has no resources. None of the other
> distros are anywhere large enough.
>
> CentOS has a substantial following but is all volunteer. Fedora is mostly
> volunteer and backed by RedHat. Many upstream, very solid projects like
> Ovirt, FreeIPA, Gluster, (all tools I use daily), are heavily supported by
> RedHat. Those are the best target for IBM to cut funding for to boost that
> purchase. No need to extend/support a project already being sold.
>
> On October 29, 2018 1:33:49 AM EDT, "A. P. Garcia" <
> a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 9:30 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed. IBM kills everything they touch
>>>
>>
>> That sounds like Oracle. RIP Sun Microsystems.
>>
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