IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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

unethical_ban wrote: post #91

rodgerd wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ubuntu looked like it was taking over last time I paid attention. Ubuntu don't have JBoss or OpenShift, amongst other things. Neither do SuSE, unfortunately.

Ubuntu has its own orchestration toolsets, and I wonder if RHAT only had the upper hand with being the incumbent in the US and buying things like Ansible and OpenShift and CoreOS. Ubuntu runs Systemd, it's a modern distro - if someone wants to take Openshift core and other components and run it on Ubuntu, it will happen.

A nitpick: OpenShift is a project founded directly by Red Hat.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by MrStonedOne » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

Oracle2.0.

Good news for fedora thou

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by gdsdfe » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

This is a cloud play ... But they're like late by a decade, hmm interesting times!

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by noelsusman » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

ISL wrote: post #93

abrowne wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r... "- IBM to maintain Red Hat’s open source innovation legacy, scaling its vast technology portfolio and empowering its widespread developer community - Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team"

Do truth-in-advertising laws apply if IBM were to change course from a stated goal?

No. They can do whatever they want.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by moomin » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

Big BlueHat

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by smooc » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

So now everyone will be wearing blue pyjamas and talk about Watson while not delivering anything.

Seriously.

Can anyone explain why this would be good?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by closeparen » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #94

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!)

I've really got to wonder at the people who would stay at a company that treated them like utter garbage ... especially if they're experienced ... and especially in this job market.

Red Hat tends to employ people through offices in low/moderate COL areas or as fully remote. It would have been my #1 prospect after leaving the Bay Area. People who've already established lives in places like Raleigh may not find a comparable job so easily.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by avip » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

Can anyone walk me through the reasoning behind all this IBM hatred? What's going on? I thought they just sell mainframes.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by phkahler » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:13 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.

Went they the primary driver of eclipse?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by achamayou » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

Juliate wrote: post #77

achamayou wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless the leadership happens to hold quite a lot of shares, their stance isn’t going to matter too much.

Your don't buy/hire a leadership team to tell them what to do (unless you happen to like to waste time and money). This happened at Apple (NeXT took over). Somehow with Disney/Pixar too if I'm not mistaken.

No, but you can certainly buy a brand, a customer base, a bunch of product trademarks or even a patent portfolio.

What happened with Apple and NeXT is the exception, not the rule.