This affects on so many open source projects in addition to RHEL. ANSIBLE, Ceph, OpenShift, Linux kernel, JBoss as well as everything Red Hat acquired from CoreOS.
IBM acquires Red Hat
121–130 of 1001 posts
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#122First Microsoft buying GitHub and now IBM buying Red Hat.
I wonder how the next year will be for Linux and open source in general, looks like we are going to have a lot of drama.
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#123If IBM has one brain cell left, they'll pull a NeXT/Apple merger and let Red Hat executives start running the combined company. That is the one path to a real future for IBM instead of its slow decline into complete irrelevance.
The only effective way for this to work is for RedHat to be an independent company
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#124Hoping they will stick to this:
"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"
I guess this was an important part of the deal, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense.
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#125God help us.
Will there be any independent open source/open source friendly company that isn't controlled by some corporate giant?
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#126Guys, this is not just, or mainly not RH Linux. :( - kernel development - Ansible - JBoss (I know HN hates Java, especially Java EE, but it was and is an important factor in enterprise OSS adoption) - OpenShift - Ceph, Gluster All these are in danger, not just RHEL. I don't know about any other company that is large, successful, focuses on the enterprise and absolutely behind OSS. Canonical is way behind Red Hat in t…
Also in practice glibc, systemd, GNOME, etc. have a ton of maintainers from Red Hat, even if they're not Red Hat-owned the way Ansible or Ceph is.
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#127I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now. And what's the future for CentOS?
NixOS maybe? Don't know about memory footprint, but as a fellow fedora laptop user, I find this distro the most appealing to switch to (arch being the other option, but too high maintenance for my taste).
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#128Hoping 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?
They didn't fire theirs - they ordered them to move to an arbitrary office, most commonly not the closest geographically either, without relocation money. If you didn't move, it was considered a voluntary departure. There was often no room at these offices even for the minority who accepted the moves.
It was/is a deliberate attempt to dispose of senior, less portable people without having to pay layoff charges.
Who needs fusion power when you can run off the Watsons spinning in their graves at relativistic velocity?
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
My last startup, blekko, was acquired by IBM in 2015. They treated our people well; many of them still work there. It takes 6 months to be acquired by IBM, so I don't think recent stock market gyrations have anything to do with it.
My perception is that IBM (and HP, Oracle, etc) will buy a product company, and then IBM-ify it, and then just sit on that product for years with minimal improvements. That is my fear for Red Hat. Successful product companies are hungry - IBM is not.
They call it bluewashing.
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#130I'm surprised at the amount of backlash here.
IBM's had the Linux Technology Center (LTC) for a long time and has been contributing to the community. All the platforms Z, POWER etc... support Linux as a first class citizen and plenty of other ecosystems are also supported (i.e GCC, OpenJDK, etc...)
Maybe its time to re-evaluate the old biases? The old incumbents like Microsoft have warmed up to OSS, not sure why Big-Blue is getting this much flak.