Well, I don't know anybody in the FOSS community which would be worried it systemd became endangered ;)
IBM acquires Red Hat
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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#162Bad news.
Sure, there are ways you could argue it could work well.
But, IBM would have to change.
Good luck with that.
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#163Actually Red Hat is exactly like IBM. Huge and slow. I know the contribution to FOSS from Red Hat is great and all, but their product, RHEL, was a cancer for a modern software development. Just easier to maintain for sysadmins doesn't make enough excuse for really long release cycle and the worst of all is they keep supporting the old products. The result is a nightmare development environment for all the programmers…
Look how slow Redhat moves up their kernel, Redhat simply is the IBM in the open source world!
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#164If 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.
RH are good at a LOT of things but sales remains a bit of a weak point compared to Oracle and to a lesser degree IBM. Hopefully the RH guys can bring back a focus on technology to IBM while IBM figure out how to sell it to customers. PS: so will it be called Blue Hat?
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#165I look forward to IBM marketing taking over. "yum, powered by Watson"
"dnf, powered by Watson"
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#166I am worried about the future of the numerous Open Source projects. I mean, why did they sell RedHat? The bet on OpenShift does not seem to pay off then. I always saw RedHat as the "enterprisy" OSS company that helps moving all these Java monoliths to the cloud. Even more problematic is the influence this aquisition has on the landscape of OSS in the cloud space, especially since CoreOS, RHEL and CentOS are now run by IBM.
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#168Can anyone walk me through the reasoning behind all this IBM hatred? What's going on? I thought they just sell mainframes.
Try to use something made by IBM and then tell us if you like it.
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#169The real story here is that cloud is killing them both.
Where do you see any of that represented in Red Hat's business performance? Their growth has been strong the last five years and shows no sign of high stress or decline being imminent. They're tracking to solidly double their sales over four years from the end of fiscal 2015.
you should read the latest earnings statements, growth was declined and a huge miss of estimates
hence the IBM merge, Redhat probably felt they couldn't do it anymore on their own
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#170IBM has been historically a Linux contributor. Eclipse, their open source IDE, opened the other to Java and other programming languages in the OS. And Power processors supported Linux early on. From that perspective to purchase Red Hat makes sense.
It makes even more sense as the announcement states that they are trying to create a bigger cloud provider to compete with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
My main concern is the reduction on variety. All big businesses are buying layer after layer of different markets reducing the number of options that one can choose.
* https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/
* https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...