Yes, I was a bit disappointed to hear the news. I always held up RedHat as a champion of Linux and as a successful business model riding on top of open source offerings. I like that. I would guess I'd say that I have guarded optimism. Unfortunately I think this is IBM's ball to fumble. On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business here in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this point. On the other hand, all they mention is the RedHat cloud services. I'd like to see more Linux in businesses from the desktop to the servers to the cloud.
We'll see what happens. -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:50 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: OT: IBM to buy RedHat I suppose it could be worse: it could have been Computer Associates. Or Oracle, or HP or *shudder* Microsoft.. Reactions over the weekend have mostly been dread from the employees, who of course, can't be sure what happens next. This was, reportedly, the largest software acquisition ever, at $34 Billion dollars. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/sn6pr0901mb2526d525131f850bdaa20e71c5...@sn6pr0901mb2526.namprd09.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
