Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-31 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 19:57, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Found something: > > https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/02/15/ins-outs-ibms-power9-zz-systems/ > > > That’s the entry-level, I presume? Thanks for that. Those were the kinds of prices I was vaguely remembering. Not totally out of whack compared to high

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 30.10.2018 um 20:37 schrieb mark : > >> > Unless I'm misremembering, these are midway between small server and > mainframe. I just did a search, and only found used systems, never new, > and they were all "refurbed", starting at $1500, and going up to $22k... > and still refurbed. > > I

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Richard Zimmerman
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Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread John Plemons
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Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread mark
Mark Rousell wrote: > On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote: > Yup. When I looked at IBM Power machines before (maybe about a year ago, > not sure), there was actually a pricing tool on the website. You could go > through various options for machines (GPUs, CPUs, storage, memory, etc.) > and

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote: > Are you sure, has this changed? In the past time when I had to do with > iSeries, they even had their own rack size, no chance to put them into a > standard server rack. Ah, I must admit that I didn't look at rack sizes. > I agree the Power System L922

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 10/30/18 12:47 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 30/10/2018 16:40, mark wrote: Linux was IBM's silver bullet on a free platter. I mean, *how* many operatings systems do you want to support...? Yup, it must cost them a pretty penny to maintain all those proprietary operating systems (especially

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 16:40, mark wrote: > Linux was IBM's silver > bullet on a free platter. I mean, *how* many operatings systems do you > want to support...? Yup, it must cost them a pretty penny to maintain all those proprietary operating systems (especially when you include their mainframe ones). I

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 30/10/2018 14:40, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: > On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >> POWER >> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the >>

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread mark
Mark Rousell wrote: > On 30/10/2018 14:49, mark wrote: > > >> I wouldn't expect a system 1, if that's the current name >> > > AS/400 -> eServer iSeries -> System i -> Power Systems > RS/6000 -> eServer pSeries -> System p -> Power Systems > > > So the current 'Power Systems' range combines what

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 14:49, mark wrote: > I wouldn't expect a system 1, if that's the current name AS/400 -> eServer iSeries -> System i -> Power Systems RS/6000 -> eServer pSeries -> System p -> Power Systems So the current 'Power Systems' range combines what was AS/400 with what was RS/6000. They

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 14:40, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM > POWER > and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the > hardware

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread rainer
Am 2018-10-30 15:53, schrieb Simon Matter: Still I wasn't sure how to compare the real life speed of POWER9 compared to something like the AMD EPYC 7601. It probably depends on the workload. And then, will everything work smooth on POWER the same way it does on the AMD? AFAIK, there were

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 2018-10-30 02:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread mark
Simon Matter wrote: >> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM > POWER > and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the > hardware market

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mike Burger
On 2018-10-30 02:46, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Rousell
On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER >>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware >>> market again (and of course don't forget to keep

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread rainer
Am 2018-10-30 10:03, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: _To me it looks pathetic that a lively profitable entity with an entirely different corporate psychology is consumed by big conglomerates. What for? _ Even more profit. Also, borrowing money is still very cheap these days (AFAIK, Amazon

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 10/30/18 3:27 AM, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 2018-10-30 08:06, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: Yeah.I guess that's one way to look at it. My biggest worry? Is I've placed so much time and effort "getting to know" Fedora and its intricacies, idiosyncrasies, its ins and

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Andreas Kasenides
On 30/10/2018 09:25, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/30/18 3:20 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 30/10/18 20:06, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread rainer
Am 2018-10-30 08:06, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: Yeah.I guess that's one way to look at it. My biggest worry? Is I've placed so much time and effort "getting to know" Fedora and its intricacies, idiosyncrasies, its ins and outs...dealt with ridicule on this very same list when I first

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 10/30/18 3:20 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 30/10/18 20:06, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Rob Kampen
On 30/10/18 20:06, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER >> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware >> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)! > > Er, RHEL has been running

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)! Er, RHEL has been running on Power for

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 23:23, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > 2. Does anybody still remember OS/2 which lost userbase to MS Windows for > workgroups, but IBM still supported it for quite long period of time. And > OS/2 was much better IMHO. > > As a long-time OS/2 user, I do remember, and damn what a

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Simon Matter
> > On Sun, October 28, 2018 6:07 pm, mark wrote: >> On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: >>> On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: >>> Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, October 28, 2018 6:07 pm, mark wrote: > On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: >> On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: >> >>> Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. >>> >>> Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread centos--- via CentOS
On 10/28/18 19:07, mark wrote: On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also contributed to Free

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread mark
On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. I

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Zube
On Sun Oct 28 11:07:50 PM, Jos Vos wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 03:54:06PM -0600, Zube wrote: > > > That old war wound started aching again. > > > > IBM:Redhat :: Oracle:Sun > > At least IBM is a far more attractive buyer than the evil Oracle, > well known for killing OSS companies as a

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Jos Vos
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 03:54:06PM -0600, Zube wrote: > > Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > > > > Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also > > contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. > > I don't know how bad it is and the implications for

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Zube
On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: > Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > > Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. > > Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also > contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. > I don't know how bad it

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Albert McCann
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alain péan > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 5:21 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat > > Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > > Damn,

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Alain péan
Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. I don't know how bad it is and the implications for CentOS... Alain --

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/28/2018 02:10 PM, Albert McCann wrote: -Original Message- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Larry Martell Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:11 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Albert McCann
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Larry > Martell > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:11 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-ne

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Phil Perry
On 28/10/18 20:10, Larry Martell wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-acquire-red-hat.html Also announced on IBM's website:

[CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Larry Martell
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