[Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

[Douglas Eadline]

> How well has Linux been supporting IBM's POWER processors? I would
> imagine pretty well, since the Linux community always seems eager to run
> on new hardware.
>
> Could it be that the Linux community hasn't been quick enough in
> accepting IBM's contributions to Linux to support POWER, so IBM decided
> to buy the largest member of the community to fix that?
>
> Or, could it be that IBM didn't have enough Linux expertise in-house to
> support POWER on Linux, so they decided to buy a lot of expertise?
>
> What do you think?

Those alleged problems could have been solved for far less than $34B

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>
> Prentice
>
> On 10/29/2018 02:43 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> it is not only that, but I saw something about Mellanox today as well.
>>
>> Not good news in my humble opinion. :-(
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Jörg
>>
>>
>> Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2018, 07:42:48 GMT schrieb Tony Brian Albers:
>>> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-softw
>>> are-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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