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IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past. https://www.pcmag.com/news/364649/ibm-acquires-red-hat-for-34b?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=whatsnewnow&utm_medium=title
James, thanks for that Monday morning news link. I've added it to the response (since someone asked on Sunday) at https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-s-acquisition-of-Red-Hat-hurt-the-open-source... On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.
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Ahh... You're a former IBMer. Me too. On 10/29/2018 12:04 PM, David Ing isss@daviding.com wrote:
James, thanks for that Monday morning news link. I've added it to the response (since someone asked on Sunday) at https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-s-acquisition-of-Red-Hat-hurt-the-open-source...
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36:12AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.
Well as far as I can tell RHEL and SLES are the two that IBM tends to support on their hardware. So at least they do know redhat as well. I suspect they have a lot more customers running redhat than suse. -- Len Sorensen
| From: James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:36:12 -0400 Thanks. Apparently the news broke before they had prepared the "messaging" so RH and IBM employees were startled and didn't immediately know what to make of it. I spent the first three days of last week at an IBM-sponsored conference on research partly sponsored by IBM. <https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/> It was surprising how infrequently the Red Hat acquisition came up. (BTW, this annual conference is free and they feed you. Its a good way of meeting CS researchers from across Canada and some from the rest of the world. It always seems to be the week after FSOSS.) The takeover seems to be about "cloud". IBM doesn't seem to be as big a cloud player as they need to be. Red Hat hasn't failed here but I would not say that it has been a great success. I'm surprised how Ubuntu seems to have much more share than Red Hat, for very little fundamental work. My opinion isn't worth much in this area: it's just based on reading random things on the web.
I used to work on an "datacenter as a service" offering from Sun (now Snoracle). We made a few cubic yards of dollars from providing datacenters for the US military to do moderately confidential processing. Most of the equipment in the buildings, though, were el-cheapo dells. /They/ took money away in trailer-truck loads. IBM had and has a similar offering, and similar dell envy. I suspect this is a move to make a credible offering in the next few RFPs. Amazon wants the same thing. --dave On 2018-11-07 10:59 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote)
The takeover seems to be about "cloud". IBM doesn't seem to be as big a cloud player as they need to be. Red Hat hasn't failed here but I would not say that it has been a great success. I'm surprised how Ubuntu seems to have much more share than Red Hat, for very little fundamental work.
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