This breaks my brain. IBM… the company that basically created AIX UNIX is now offically buying a Linux company… which is RedHat. I get that IBM is trying desperately to break their ‘old folks home’ in terms of image and innovation but to go out and buy a huge operation straight up like this I think reinforces the idea. I don’t see a problem with this but I think they are going about it in the wrong way.
Does anyone else remember those old IBM commercials for Linux from the… late 90s? I think? Anyway they have always been on the forefront for Linux/UNIX systems but I think with what has been going on with Microsoft and Apple lately people are looking for other options.
At one time they were eyed for anti-trust action, was killed in the 80’s
Remember seeing RedHat at Fry’s in the 90’s back when software came in a nice big box with diskettes inside.
Very interesting
You need to keep in mind IBM were not buying RH for Linux, they were buying it for hybrid cloud. This is potentially a massive market in the Enterprise segment.
Many companies have workloads not suited to, or cost effective in Azure or AWS but want to get them into a private cloud with all the advantages and DevOps buzz words it brings.
Well hopefully they can get something off the ground. I have friends that work in AWS and S3, they basically make it sound like a revolving door of talent.
Red Hat already have experience and tooling in this space. My employer uses a fair amount already and will potentially be using more as they use IBM data centres with VMware and RHEL VMs plus Azure. The buy makes sense from where I sit.
