[Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

[Prentice Bisbal]

You mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bu4hLxL_EM

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Prentice


In 10/29/2018 10:56 AM, Peter St. John wrote:
> I know that several years ago, more than a decade, IBM was selling a 
> solution of running some thousand instances of Red Hat on a 390. I 
> don't know how that competed with racks of commodity etc but I can 
> imagine there were advantages in the backbone. Anyway they were 
> selling it way back, which at the time I thought was progressive. But 
> I'm just an application developer.
> Peter
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 AM INKozin via Beowulf 
> <beowulf at beowulf.org <mailto:beowulf at beowulf.org>> wrote:
>
>     exactly my thoughts (even though i have not worked there, talking
>     to its employees was enough).
>     it's attitude towards open source is not exactly promising.
>     the recent github deal comes to mind but at least MS is declaring
>     to be more open towards open source.
>     and at least there is an alternative in that case - gitlab.
>     what would be an alternative to RH? certainly not a single one.
>
>     On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 07:43, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk
>     <mailto:tba at kb.dk>> wrote:
>
>         https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-softw
>         are-company-red-hat-for-34-billion-idUSKCN1N20N3
>         <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-software-company-red-hat-for-34-billion-idUSKCN1N20N3>
>
>         I wonder where that places us in the not too distant future..
>
>         I've worked for Big Blue, and I'm not sure the company
>         cultures are
>         compatible to say the least.
>
>         /tony
>
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