Congrats to Alex and his team! I've loved their technology since their alpha days. Glad to see it working out and hopefully getting into more hands with the acquisition.
Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
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Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#12This is great news! I am not sure what happens to tectonic? Is is going to be part of OpenShift?
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#13It seems like early 2018 is rife with acquisitions and mergers. Was the recent tax law a factor? Seems like these acquisitions take so much time that it couldn't have been dependent on that. So why all this activity?
New financial year, fresh budgets
Except Red Hat is financially now in Q4.
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#14It seems like early 2018 is rife with acquisitions and mergers. Was the recent tax law a factor? Seems like these acquisitions take so much time that it couldn't have been dependent on that. So why all this activity?
New financial year, fresh budgets
Unlikely. Most of the acquiring companies, including Red Hat have fiscal years that don't end on Dec 31.
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#15I suspect an announcement re: Docker's acquisition by a major tech player may follow closely on the heels of this news.
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#16It seems like early 2018 is rife with acquisitions and mergers. Was the recent tax law a factor? Seems like these acquisitions take so much time that it couldn't have been dependent on that. So why all this activity?
M&A has been the strategy of just about all major companies for the last 18 months, and because of the lead time, I think 2018 is going to be even busier.
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#17Wondered when that would happen. ;)
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#18This makes sense. Red Hat has been investing in Project Atomic for a while now and CoreOS still seems like a better option, if you're looking for a container-only OS that has been battle tested. Additionally, both companies seem like good places to work, with leadership that's often praised and has the results to show. I'm happy for CoreOS on this one, they're joining a company that I admire. Looking forward to see h…
Probably rhel9. I have no professional insight into this but the historic timeline implies 8 will be out soon, I suspect they are just waiting for Wayland to get some where they feel comfortable with. Anything past Wayland is probably a 9 feature.
Re: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
#19This is great news! I am not sure what happens to tectonic? Is is going to be part of OpenShift?
As per the question in the FAQ about open sourcing CoreOS's technology, we can assume it's going to become open source, at least:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos
It will probably continue to be available in some paid commercial offering with well defined releases and lifecycles, as well as a community-supported free-in-both-senses offering which moves faster. Red Hat repeatedly uses this model across their portfolio.
Can't answer the OpenShift question - I have no inside info from either company. But open sourcing it is the bigger impact.
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#20"Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering. Whereas, some of the delivery mechanisms pioneered by Container Linux will be reviewed by a joint integration team and reconciled with Atomic." So long, Container Linux, we hardly knew ye... ?
What is the source? I didn't see that in the linked article.
From their FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos