Re: [wlug] IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:26:40 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:

'International Business Machines (IBM) is acquiring software maker Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion, the companies said Sunday.'

Mark “Ubuntu” Shuttleworth has issued a statement <https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat>: Nevertheless, the world has moved on. Replacing UNIX is no longer sufficient. The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. In other words, IBM paid too much.