Lets just hope that the blue washing doesn't flush the red tide with a big Wave! Hopefully this winds up really helping z focused hybrid clouds however noting that Red Hat licensing seems to favor x86 sales like much of IBM's software portfolio does. - And it does make some sense when you look at IBM's investment into things like KVM and Openshift. .
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 6:41 PM Harder, Pieter < pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl> wrote: > > In the past IBM has been extremely reluctant to outright own a Linux > distro. Likely for fear of alienating the Linux people by corporate > behaviour. Why now? Is this a preventive strike to prevent somebody else > from owning Red Hat? Microsoft seems to be on the prowl to buy open source > stuff and Microsoft owning Red Hat could be really bad for IBM. > > > > https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- ><((((º>`·.¸¸´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸>(((º> .·´¯`·.><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> <>< Go fishing ><> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/