An open source software driven future. Some of those patents are, well, not as sound as a lot of tech people would prefer. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Red Hat is being subsumed by the largest closed-source company on the planet, one who does their job sub-optimally to be nice. They're not as cool as Ubuntu but they have a lot of fans in the community, both devs and users, and that helps them get into the server rooms. The bet is that enterprises will get their one big contract they are used to yet feel open enough to play with multiple vendors. If these people want to keep doing what they're doing, they can start a new company. Now you know the appeal of Red Hat. In doing so, they will draw on their shared leadership in key technologies, such as Linux, containers, Kubernetes, multi-cloud management, and cloud management and automation. Shares fell — and have fallen further since then. It's mostly been about productivity and some client facing apps.
From a : The purchase, announced on Sunday afternoon, is the latest competitive step among large business software companies to gain an edge in the fast-growing market for Internet-style cloud computing. From a press release: This acquisition brings together the best-in-class hybrid cloud providers and will enable companies to securely move all business applications to the cloud. Companies today are already using multiple clouds. However, research shows that 80 percent of business workloads have yet to move to the cloud, held back by the proprietary nature of today's cloud market. This prevents portability of data and applications across multiple clouds, data security in a multi-cloud environment and consistent cloud management. Together, they will help clients create cloud-native business applications faster, drive greater portability and security of data and applications across multiple public and private clouds, all with consistent cloud management. In doing so, they will draw on their shared leadership in key technologies, such as Linux, containers, Kubernetes, multi-cloud management, and cloud management and automation. Dragon is a pretty nice OpenStack backup system I've been using in house for some time now. If you are against off shoring, then nothing at all has changed here. They are valid more often than not, but having a history of corporate shakedowns doesn't make you many friends. Some of those patents are, well, not as sound as a lot of tech people would prefer. If they were serious, they'd have improved their own Linux contribution efforts. But they literally think they can somehow keep selling software without anyone with knowledge of the software, or for transferring skills to their own employees. They literally have no interest in actual software development. It's all about sales targets. My advice to Red Hat engineers is to get out now. I worked for several companies during my career, from startups to fortune 100 companies. I've heard those things too, and the reality was much worse. They're only slightly 'better' than Oracle. Here let us direct you to one of our training centers. Debian is not a public company. They are a community of developers, authors, artists, etc. There are not an entity in the business sense to be acquired. Debian will be one of the last distros left that is not commercialized. Probably capital investment and lack of talent. It's not as though you can magically build a massive cloud infrastructure from the ground up in short order if you don't already have people who know what they're doing. You're going to need data centers, equipment, technicians, etc. It might take several years for everything you need to be build, delivered, and installed. It's a sad, and infuriating, repeated pattern. They no longer develop internal talent. They drive away the remaining people left over from the time when they still did develop things. Ok, forget about what I said. And now attention: Getting modded into earths core in 3,2,1. They're not as cool as Ubuntu but they have a lot of fans in the community, both devs and users, and that helps them get into the server rooms. Probably Red Hat's biggest liability has been their size, the more Free Software aligned crowd is very nervous about big corporations. ibm bought red hat If they ever start ibm bought red hat the community some other distro is going to start popping up in the server room. Microsoft couldn't purchase Redhat directly, that would make too many people upset. Then they have what they want - direct control over one of the most important Linux distros in the world. The software engineers at the company are top notch. I can only hope that upper management has learned a few lessons in the past twenty years. If they weren't stupid, they wouldn't do that. Non-compete clauses are unenforceable in some jurisdictions. You can't just take over a complex system from someone else and expect everything to run smoothly or know how to fix or extend it. Also, not everyone who works at Red Hat gets anything from the buyout unless they were regularly giving employees stock. If these people want to keep doing what they're doing, they can start a new company. If they're good at what they do, they probably won't have much trouble attracting some venture capital either. Stock is simply a form of ownership. I guess we could abolish joint ownership and just let wealthy families control everything like the good 'ol days. The part you hate about it people making money by trading is a feature, not a flaw. It's a system where human nature works for the common good. Yes, you have people playing the market, but in exchange for that behavior that you don't like, you get the much greater good of liquidity and access to vast amounts of capital. I can be ibm bought red hat part-owner of any company I'm not sure how much legs the whole 'hybrid multi-cloud' actually has. Our company looked at the RedHat platform and decided to jump to straight cloud. We'll see how much lock-in they can get for the customers that do buy into it. With systemd how can they fuck it up worse than it already is. I'm sure they can still make it worse. It's where good software goes to die. As a former employee for both places, I see this as the death knell for Red Hat. What company is run by people who refuse to use its own product except for one that doesn't have faith. Hell, I was on an internal but on our own time team whose goal was to take needs like this and incubate them with an open source solution to meet that need. And now, here we are. Red Hat is being subsumed by the largest closed-source company on the planet, one who does their job sub-optimally to be nice. This is the end of Red Hat as we know it. Without 5-7 years Red Hat will go the way of Tivoli and Lotus: it will be a brand name that lacks any of what made the original company what it was when it was acquired. Fedora is fully under Red Hat's control. I doubt its going away since it does a great job of establishing mindshare but no business in their right mind is going to run Fedora in production. They didn't need Red Hat repos back then, just the code which they rebuilt from scratch which is why they were often a few months behind. You only have to distribute the source code, or an offer to the source code to the recipient of the object ibm bought red hat. It doesn't need to be public. This constant need for something new instead of actually improving what you have so far has been the killer to desktop linux more than 'apps' are. I remember being excited when Oracle bought Sun.
