[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Simba]

I do some work in that sector, in fact I work on a small DoD contract. I
know that your 3 rules are not true all of the time. The government
awards contracts for all kinds of things to all sorts of small
businesses, all of the time. It's very common.

It would be naive to say IBM is crooked but Oracle isn't. They're all
the exact same f'ing culture. Corporations are obligated by law to make
choices which benefit their shareholders.

Look at Apple, they started out being "Different than IBM" and now they
are exactly the same. Oracle and Sun and Redhat and IBM and all the
other old tech brands are all the same. They all advertise their
products in the exact same ways, using the exact same buzzwords.

I hate it, if that wasn't obvious already ;) It's all very boring and
lacks imagination.


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On 10/29/18 9:18 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> Having worked in government IT, I can tell you the following:
> 1.  If it doesn't come with a 24x7 support contract and formal SLA, it
> won't make it to the point of serious consideration.
> 2.  If it doesn't come with men in suits saying the proper buzzwords, it
> won't get serious consideration.
> 3.  If dedicated implementation engineers and on site contract support
> staff is not available, it is a no-go.
> Red Hat, SUSE, and Oracle are the only ones equipped to play in that area.
> 
> Allen B.
> 
> On 10/29/18 8:01 AM, Simba via Ale wrote:
>> With all due respect, I can't take your opinions seriously when you say
>> philosophy doesn't matter. Our entire nation was built on philosophy.
>> Our government serves the people and purposes of that nation.
>>
>> Anyhow there's additional reasons, for example the ease of upgrading
>> Debian based systems.
>>
>> In a sane world we would not only be talking about servers and
>> specialized infrastructure but desktops as well, in fact desktops are
>> where the bulk of any OS deployment would take place in any government
>> agency.
>>
>> If the government were to adopt Debian (and it should not be a
>> per-agency choice, that's insanity.), vendors and support would appear.
>> That's the nature of free market capitalism, it can adapt to shifting
>> markets and that happens literally all the time with government contract
>> opportunities.
>>
>> Philosophy matters probably more than everything else.
>>
>>
>> Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
>> https://keybase.io/simbalion
>>
>> "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
>> On 10/29/18 8:26 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:07 AM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org
>>> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Philosophy doesn't matter; functionality does.
>>>
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