I used to work on an "datacenter as a service" offering from Sun (now
Snoracle). We made a few cubic yards of dollars from providing
datacenters for the US military to do moderately confidential
processing. Most of the equipment in the buildings, though, were
el-cheapo dells. /They/ took money away in trailer-truck loads.
IBM had and has a similar offering, and similar dell envy. I suspect
this is a move to make a credible offering in the next few RFPs.
Amazon wants the same thing.
--dave
On 2018-11-07 10:59 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote)
The takeover seems to be about "cloud". IBM doesn't seem to be as big
a cloud player as they need to be. Red Hat hasn't failed here but I
would not say that it has been a great success. I'm surprised how
Ubuntu seems to have much more share than Red Hat, for very little
fundamental work.
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