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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by donedealomg »

gtycomb wrote: post #24

I 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?

Just go Debian and be done with all this stuff

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by verandaguy »

mrkstu wrote: post #42

If 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.

IBM is sliding into irrelevance in the mass market for sure, but they've still got a sizeable slice of the HPC/supercomputing market and their research in quantum computing is hard to overlook.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by zie »

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.

To some degree they have opened the Power9, which is hardware. For hardware it's like leaps and bounds more open than anything else out there that can compete with it.

RISC-V is more open, but the hardware isn't necessarily open, and it's not yet really competing at the same scale as Power9 does... yet. There is hope :)

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Post by devoply »

solatic wrote: post #153

It's like Vader asked Luke to join him in defeating the Emperor (Microsoft) and ruling the galaxy as father and son - and instead of the audience hearing "I'll never join you!!", we hear "sure, let's team up." The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. WTF just happened? If you asked me a month ago to put down serious money in Vegas on this never happening, I'd have happily done so. What on Earth were they thinking?…

Yeah, 10 years down the line RHEL is pretty much guaranteed dead. Probably say goodbye to Fedora as well.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by ddingus »

Aloha wrote: post #57
jarym wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

use the IBM sales org, with the RH leadership ;-)

Purple hat

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by whoisjuan »

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.

This has been my experience too, and not when it was released. I was playing with some of their APIs last month and it was horrible: CORS issues, high latency, random failures or server errors for no reason.
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