Dang, this one will shake things up in the enterprise world. Since Oracle basically distributes Red Hat's RHEL operating system verbatim (WC would tell you otherwise), let's see how this affects Redwood Shores. The deal is being positioned as a cloud move but this won't be shaking up the lineup as far as the top three (AWS, MSFT, and GOOG) go.
Your move, ORCL?
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-a-deal-to-acquire-redhat-the-software-company-valued-at-20-billion-2018-10
Desperate companies do desperate things.
Wow! Whomever on the IBM Board that approved this TURD should be let go!
I would have been much cheaper by about $33.5 Billion just to hire their talent away.
Typical stupid decision by id--tic non-technical decision makers.
For at least 5 years I have been involved with customers having severe performance issues with AIX.
One went from AIX to Teradata only to see performance go down the drain.
Of course, the vendor blamed Oracle. Really???
Last week, I had a customer that "upgraded" from Oracle on Linux to Oracle on AIX Power 8, and saw an immediately 50% performance degradation. Yet, Oracle is the blame? This makes no sense at all.
While you are correct, Each company who markets and sells Linux adds in their own tools, tweeks and tunings. So RHEL/CentOS behaves differently and has a different toolset than SuSe which has a different toolset and behaves differently than Ubuntu. Each upgrade and patch differently and each load differently.
Linux does not belong to Red Hat. It's from the open source community. If you really want to think it belongs to someone, it should be Linus Torvalds, rather than Red Hat.
If you have taken advantage of the contribution of the Open Source community and build a Linux distribution and then contributed that distribution back to the Open Source community, it's great, and it also means it's free for everyone else to take advantage of your contribution just like what you do at the first place.
Just like Oracle and HP contract for design of ExaData....oops. Just like Oracle and HP contract for DB use on HPUX, oops.
"True but contracts don't last forever"
Actually, some do. They're known as "perpetuity agreements". Not saying the RH deal is one, but I'm guessing that it doesn't expire anytime soon.
There could be a pesky contract that requires that.
True but contracts don't last forever.
"WHo's to say they will continue to allow a "rebranding" of what is essentially a red hat/IBM product?"
There could be a pesky contract that requires that.
Why didn't ORCL buy RHAT instead of IBM? This has no fit for IBM but it would perfectly fit into ORCL's Linux strategy and complement what we already have with Oracle Linux.
The merger part is a long shot. The rest, not so much. I wouldn't bet against that.
Not necessarily. WHo's to say they will continue to allow a "rebranding" of what is essentially a red hat/IBM product? "You can still use it, but you cna't change any of the brand icons.".
IBM along with RH will go for a tail spin, advantage oracle.
Oracle will rule.
IBM has less clue than Oracle. Poor Red Hat employees.
@1vam their CEO is 62 and she said that she's still young and has no plans to leave. She did manage to lay off about 100k people and shrink the company from revenue/profit perspective... I think she's at the helm since 2014...
If they are smart they will let Red Hat run IBM.
If this does not happen, they will be completely irrelevant within five years.
Aside from legacy, they an ultra thin offering...
Since Oracle basically distributes Red Hat's RHEL operating system verbatim (WC would tell you otherwise)
This makes WC the highest paid tech support patch intern. Seriously.
OK to be fair: Oracle changes the branding. They replace the RedHat PNG icons with Oracle PNG icons.
"IBM will remain committed to Red Hat's open governance, open source contributions, participation in the open source community and development model, and fostering its widespread developer ecosystem. "
Sounds like it will be business as usual for Oracle Linux.
Bye bye Oracle Linux. Correction: Bye bye Oracle.
Catch and kill, tech style.
Good news for Oracle.