IBM nears deal to acquire software company Red Hat
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider
That's a lot of money. I wonder how long before IBM forces Red Hat to downsize. IBM and downsizing go hand and hand.
And this is how the PowerPC platform will rise once again
The PowerMac G6 will be here soon
time to bring back the os/2 name.
What's Red Hat's business model? Do they charge for their OS?
yes, red hat enterprise Linux is a paid OS, in essence you are "paying" for the support contracts really. You can get other OSes built from the same source as redhat like CentOS... which redhat actually acquired several years ago.
What's the incentive to actually pay? What kind of support can you get from them that your own developers can't give you? Who's using Linux without actually knowing how to support it themselves?
24/7 support, very fast patches for vulnerabilities like spectre/meltdown, high reliability and a huge range of solutions (cloud/storage/middleware/...). Big corporations with critical structures like banks, airlines and insurance firms don't want to invest into all this or leave it to an open source community to fix it.
Red hat also has pretty locked down repos and guarantee all of it works together perfectly. And you can get redhat certified which means when the company hires someone to work on their infrastructure they're sure they know what they're doing.
Enterprise linux in general is just a case of "we pay for support so when shit goes down our guys aren't the ones in the firing line". From a consumer or prosumer perspective it's not a good investment, but when your entire business infrastructure is reliant on five-nines uptime, you really want to be paying for some genuine expertise to reach that goal.
The use case for linux in enterprise (and the issues you're trying to solve) bears little resemblance to setting up and maintaining linux on your home gaming and YouTube machine. Tomshardware forums aren't going to cut it.
Also, that's IT's job, not a developer's. Your devs should be busy working on internal software and getting the product shipped, not on deploying hypervisors.
Unless you expect your devs to actively make pull requests to the linux kernel and daemons for your businesses' environment? Which at that point you're Google-tier and you're playing a different ball game.
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