I suppose it could be worse: it could have been Computer Associates. Or Oracle, or HP or *shudder* Microsoft..
Reactions over the weekend have mostly been dread from the employees, who of course, can't be sure what happens next.
This was, reportedly, the largest software acquisition ever, at $34 Billion dollars.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Yes, I was a bit disappointed to hear the news. I always held up RedHat as a champion of Linux and as a successful business model riding on top of open source offerings. I like that. I would guess I'd say that I have guarded optimism. Unfortunately I think this is IBM's ball to fumble. On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business here in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this point. On the other hand, all they mention is the RedHat cloud services. I'd like to see more Linux in businesses from the desktop to the servers to the cloud.
We'll see what happens.
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I suppose it could be worse: it could have been Computer Associates. Or Oracle, or HP or *shudder* Microsoft..
Reactions over the weekend have mostly been dread from the employees, who of course, can't be sure what happens next.
This was, reportedly, the largest software acquisition ever, at $34 Billion dollars.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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On Oct 29, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:
On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business here in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this point. On the other hand, all they mention is the RedHat cloud services. I'd like to see more Linux in businesses from the desktop to the servers to the cloud.
Most of IBM’s customers are big enterprises, and a very high percentage of them run Linux. Most prefer RHEL, since that comes with support. One of the tasks my team is working on is making sure that RH products run as well on IBM Power systems as they do on x86 systems, so that IBM can sell more hardware.
-- Ed Leafe
Check out this vlog by Bryan Lunduke on the IBM purchase of Red Hat. He has some interesting insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMRgrP5IR8
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On Oct 29, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:
On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business here in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this point. On the other hand, all they mention is the RedHat cloud services. I'd like to see more Linux in businesses from the desktop to the servers to the cloud.
Most of IBM’s customers are big enterprises, and a very high percentage of them run Linux. Most prefer RHEL, since that comes with support. One of the tasks my team is working on is making sure that RH products run as well on IBM Power systems as they do on x86 systems, so that IBM can sell more hardware.
-- Ed Leafe
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For another out-from-left-field view of the situation, consider: "Red Hat takes over IBM:"
https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:02 AM Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:
Check out this vlog by Bryan Lunduke on the IBM purchase of Red Hat. He has some interesting insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMRgrP5IR8
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On Oct 29, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:
On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business
here in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this point. On the other hand, all they mention is the RedHat cloud services. I'd like to see more Linux in businesses from the desktop to the servers to the cloud.
Most of IBM’s customers are big enterprises, and a very high percentage of them run Linux. Most prefer RHEL, since that comes with support. One of the tasks my team is working on is making sure that RH products run as well on IBM Power systems as they do on x86 systems, so that IBM can sell more hardware.
-- Ed Leafe
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:06 AM Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
For another out-from-left-field view of the situation, consider: "Red Hat takes over IBM:"
Caldera OpenLinux and SCO Xenix? :)
No... IBM is a lot bigger and IBM mainframes are still the backbone of banking systems and Fintech.
On Oct 31, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
For another out-from-left-field view of the situation, consider: "Red Hat takes over IBM:"
He’s basically updating the “Apple buys NeXT” story from the mid-90s. Apple was much bigger and better known, but was having some financial woes after some management mis-steps. Within a couple of years, nearly every Apple exec was gone, replaced by people from NeXT. The Mac OS was replaced by NeXTSTEP, which was re-christened as OS X.
Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-)
-- Ed Leafe
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:18 AM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-)
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