<div dir="ltr"><div>Some CentOS folks were funded by RH.SuSE actually has/had a SLES that runs on Z. Cool stuff. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Leam</div><div><br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:52 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Banks are turning away from AIX and towards RedHat. So this pulls the banks back to IBM (kicking and crying).<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 29, 2018 1:33:49 AM EDT, "A. P. Garcia" <<a href="mailto:a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 9:30 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>Agreed. IBM kills everything they touch </div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That sounds like Oracle. RIP Sun Microsystems.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div></div>
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