IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by lovelle » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

MyNameIsFred wrote: post #740

giis wrote: post #718

I went to IBM(India) interview sometime in 2011, after leaving GlusterFS (Red Hat). Interview went well, during final call with management. I was asked to stop working on Open Source during weekends or off-hours even though the IBM project and my Open Source work has nothing in common. I said, "I thought, IBM support Open Source right?" his response, "Yes, but that's another team" I decided to call-off the interview…

What wouldn't be the 5th time I've heard such stories, but I don't think it's in any way specific to IBM. Employers like that want any OT you do to be dedicated to THEIR endeavor, not somebody else's...even your own. If you're able and willing to code in your off-time, you should be doing it for the good of the Company. /s

Yeah sure, and if you like I can also clean the bathrooms because I know how to do it... Off-time is for your own not for your company regardless off what you do with it.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by rusticpenn » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:44 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #714

chongli wrote: post #712

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Wait, so your university owns copyright on all your work by default?! That's a bummer if true. Outrageous, actually.

I think this is US specific.

Nope, Its the same in Germany too.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by pookeh » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:45 AM UTC

Having worked at IBM for 10 years, this is what I have come to know how IBM operates top-down:

1. To make significant profits, we need to sell services on top of our software products (this is essentially GBS and their "strong" sales people)

2. To make very good profits, we need to make highly customizable software (for example AI and BI offerings).

3. To make even more profit we need to make sure the software is tuned to the hardware we make.

If one of those weakens the entire IBM portfolio and profits weaken dramatically.

Here's problems in last 7 years tho: 1. People moving to the cloud so the hardware business flatlines. 2. Because people moved to the cloud they found replacements to IBM software. 3. At the end of the day IBM is forced to deliver professional services on top of other companies' software and hardware (and services employees are not cheap).

At some point the IBM execs must have had an epiphany that their AI offerings don't sell because they don't have a platform that sells other commodity cloud services on top of which AI components can be sold as high-priced addons.

So thus IBM decided to do what it does best --- take control of the entire stack.

With this acquisition IBM has the potential to become a next gen. cloud vendor. For example IBM has been trying to sell Bluemix as a hybrid PaaS/IaaS but haven't been very successful. The engineering team in Bluemix is weak and one way to really up the ante is getting access to top talent in the industry to do this (CoreOS team, Openshift.io team, linux kernel devs, distributed storage devs).

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:55 AM UTC

pookeh wrote: post #763

Having worked at IBM for 10 years, this is what I have come to know how IBM operates top-down: 1. To make significant profits, we need to sell services on top of our software products (this is essentially GBS and their "strong" sales people) 2. To make very good profits, we need to make highly customizable software (for example AI and BI offerings). 3. To make even more profit we need to make sure the software is tun…

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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by mohammedbin » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:56 AM UTC

meditate wrote: post #704

mohammedbin wrote: post #695

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Why wouldn't you use WSL?

I haven't used Windows in quite some time, but I believe they are quite different. WSL is more like a very basic version of Wine in that it implements Linux system calls and can execute ELF binaries, and as such requires you to install a host OS for libc and any other libraries you want. Cygwin is more like Winelib in that it provides a custom libc implementation and toolchain that are natively compiled, and as such…

Wine seems basic and immature in comparison to WSL not the other way.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by w4tson » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 5:57 AM UTC

kitd wrote: post #430

sz4kerto wrote: post #52

Guys, 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…

- kernel development - OpenShift I very much doubt these 2 are in any danger. In fact, I'd say these are the golden eggs IBM wants.

You might want to read up on your Aesop’s fables ;)

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by megous » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:01 AM UTC

bpye wrote: post #609

megous wrote: post #84

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I also use this, and memory footprint is ~100MiB, mostly on the Xorg side. i3 itself + various other components is ~20MiB total.

Have you tried sway instead of i3? Any reason you've stuck to i3 with X11 instead or just no reason to change?

No reason to change. Though I might try it on one of my Orange Pi's one day. Does sway support OpenGL ES 2.0?

EDIT: Actually I probably use a few things that would need to be modified to work, like screencast recording via some custom gst-launch command, that depend on X in a non-trivial way.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by acct1771 » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:04 AM UTC

techntoke wrote: post #651

signal11 wrote: post #344

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Ubuntu (Canonical) just stared looking more attractive as they were trying to be an independent commercially-supported Linux offering. Or, if you don’t like Canonical (and to be fair they do a lot less than Red Hat do), encouraging corporate users to sponsor Debian directly would be amazing.

I'd rather corporate users sponsor Arch. My guess is Canonical will be announcing they are getting acquired by Microsoft soon.

What's it take to build an excellent Arch enterprise support team (because that's the only way I'd ever want to do it)?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by acct1771 » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:05 AM UTC

binaryapparatus wrote: post #264

OpenBSD-reich wrote: post #241

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Hopefully this will cause an uptick in Gentoo (and OpenBSD)!

Yup, since I switched to FreeBSD year or more ago it makes watching news like this much less stressful.

Curious why Free>Open, for your usecase, as I'd like to learn more about them.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by umichguy » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:06 AM UTC

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #747

chongli wrote: post #712

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Wait, so your university owns copyright on all your work by default?! That's a bummer if true. Outrageous, actually.

My contract requires that anything I develop using University resources, which in practice means potentially anything in my areas of specialisation, the University has some claim on. It's not entirely unreasonable - imagine someone in Biochemistry developing some drug using University labs etc. and then turning around and selling the formula to a private lab. But it's the petty bureaucratisation which is infuriating.…

If you use any (and I mean any) school funded resources for any of your personal projects, yes, they usually have a basis for a claim.

I have a friend who went to Utah for his bachelor's in CS.