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For that purpose, RHEL is completely free to begin with
Not for production purposes.
But RHEL is free for limited production purposes also, to a maximum of 16 systems.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-f...
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If he's on the tech side he should be fine. IBM is loaded with boomers with amazing jobs and pension plans that they're eager to dump if they can. They seem to want to keep good tech people while dumping the sweet deal boomers and non-tech where possible. t. IBMer
Thanks. He's a really good guy, and an excellent, and enthusiastic tech. One of the better folks that I've had the privilege to work with. The stories (and there's a lot of smoke) that I hear, coming from IBM, are not comforting.
Wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure. Say what you will about big blue, they repeatedly seem to know who to acquire in order to buy themselves another 10 years of relevance.
Given the stock price… it had to be someone. Same for Gitlab soon I guess
Sad, because GitLab was great for awhile. Then they stopped fixing bugs and started adding unneeded features, and made their pricing very expensive.
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My semi-educated guess is that mainframes are a much bigger chunk still. (AS/400 is midrange. They are called something else now, I heard. Maybe I-series.) A lot of those indispensable infrastructure systems we all depend on, such as insurance, income tax, etc., run on mainframes, as they have for decades now. So don't diss big iron / Big Blue. I, for one, hope they have many years left, though I guess they could do…
Those z-boxes can comfortably run 5000 instances of Linux as your very own virtual data center. Makes you wonder what inference on mainframe would look like, though you don't have GPUs.