IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by setquk » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

Judging by IBM’s history over the last 20 years I suspect this is akin to putting Satan at the wheel and giving him a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Several layers of abstraction down the line I get the feeling this will hurt us ansible and centos users now they have been pulled under the umbrella.

What happened to companies standing tall and alone?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

delfinom wrote: post #81

crb002 wrote: post #32

This will only work out if IBM beefs up it's data centers to clone AWS (Lambda, Batch, S3, RDS, SQS, Fargate), gobbles Netifly, then puts mainframe DB2 in the cloud next to commodity servers. Also needs to open the ZOS toolchain and get a modern syntax and tooling around COBOL.

Tried IBM cloud when it was "released". 50% of the portal pages were failing due to their own cross origin policies. Only a idiot would touch such an incompetent cloud system.

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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

#103

Post by closeparen » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

pinewurst wrote: post #3

Hoping this is false! IBM is the worst of acquirers and they treat their people like utter garbage, especially the more experienced ones. If there's any truth to this, it means those in charge have basically given up - assuming growth is capped and/or that the big return of a buyout premium would counter recent stock pricing setbacks. (Update: now officially announced!)

Red Hat has a significant remote workforce. IBM famously fired theirs. Can we expect IBM to do the same to Red Hat's?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by jt2190 » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

paulbjensen wrote: post #63

Redhat website confirmed it. https://www.redhat.com/en

Editors: This really should be the top link. Additionally, there's more detail in the email sent to RedHat employees, published here:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-...

Edit: Notably, from Jim Whitehurst's email:

> ... When the transaction closes, as I noted above, [Red Hat] will be a distinct unit within IBM and I will report directly to [IBM chair, president, and CEO] Ginni [Rometty].

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

#105

Post by mindcrime » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

R.I.P. Red Hat.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

#106

Post by zokier » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #86

Aloha wrote: post #59

IBM has been very open source friendly over the last 20 years, more so as of recently.

Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.

Their J9 JDK alongside with WebSphere AS.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by Rampoina » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

Welp, just as I got hired to work at Red Hat. :(

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

#109

Post by altmind » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

This is terrible news, I really hope this deal does not go through, get blocked by shareholders or by anti-trust laws.

I also remember that IBM is not doing good - profits are decreasing and their software and services division fail to produce any innovation for the last years.

Did IBM need to buy whole RH to strengthen their cloud offering? Couldnt they just partnered with RH cloud division, leaving RH Core team independent?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by trhway » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

RH fell behind the times. Their paradigm of a stable though an older kernel was suitable for the times when kernel wasn't that stable and things in the industry were developed slower than today. I work in a big enterprise space and usually we do Ubuntu if we can and SUSE Enterprise if we can't :), i recently tried Docker/Kubernetes on a recent RHEL - looking at the kernel version i already didn't expect the stuff to work and of course it didnt work (no complete namespaces features support). Their push for their own custom software platform instead is a good match for IBM.