91–100 of 185 posts
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit. Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here: https://opentofu.org/ and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here: https://openbao.org/
Do you even realize OpenBao is an IBM initiative?
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.
I’m not happy about this but my silver linings are: 1) At least Ellison doesn’t end up with it 2) Consul should tend to bring down the aggregate complexity of IBM solutions just a little bit.
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.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit. Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here: https://opentofu.org/ and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here: https://openbao.org/
The community is better off with the combination of AlmaLinux + CentOS Stream.
AlmaLinux provides differentiation by supporting hardware and patches that Red Hat doesn't necessarily want to.
CentOS Stream provides a way for all downstream distros (Red Hat, Alma, Oracle, Rocky, whatever) to contribute back to the ecosystem in a way that is deeper than submitting bug reports to bugzilla.redhat.com
The latter point is something people really miss. CentOS was not much of an "open source" project in the same way that Android isn't much of an "open source" project. There was few ways to contribute directly beyond filing a bug report and waiting for Red Hat / Google to handle it. CentOS Stream is vastly more open as a project.
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.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit. Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here: https://opentofu.org/ and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here: https://openbao.org/
I'm biased (co-founder) but you should take a look at Infisical for secret management: https://infisical.com
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been there (not Red Hat) it sucks.
IBM was sure good to someone I know. Some people might not appreciate a great job surrounded by brilliant inventors, even if the company has seem better days, but IBM taught them a lot (such as an absolute commitment to backwards compatibility and long-term support) early in their career and they will be forever grateful to them for those things. Now, they have their own company and would never go back, but they stil…
They're constantly doing small layoffs if not spinning off entire divisions. Even if you aren't personally affected, it's disheartening to find out when people you work with are the target of a "resource action". Their headcount has dropped 150K from 2010.
They did a weird sleight of hand a while ago where you only got a 401k match if you were employed at the end of the year. I see now that they've dropped all 401k matching and have shifted to some kind of small pension program instead.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does it have to do with him being 42?
Older, more expensive workers are targeted by IBM to be pushed out of the org. They run on cheap offshore, domestic visa, and younger labor, except near the top of the org. https://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+ageism https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=ibm+&job=&city=&year=2023 https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a... https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/ibm_ceo_pay_jumps_23/
I work for Red Hat, acquired by IBM. None of the older developers working for Red Hat have been laid off. Actually developers as a group were mostly left intact by the one layoff we did have.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not happy about this but my silver linings are: 1) At least Ellison doesn’t end up with it 2) Consul should tend to bring down the aggregate complexity of IBM solutions just a little bit.
I would predict that IBM will cancel Consul and Nomad completely to focus on k8s.