The biggest part of the news is that the company that is bringing us into their fold is committed to keeping the things that have made us Red Hat and that have made us successful over the years, always thinking about the customer and supporting the community as the innovation platform for our success.
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And today, one of the largest enterprise players on the planet has agreed to take open source and Red Hat even further. By joining IBM, Red Hat can deliver even more open source innovation to customers at a larger scale.
Importantly, IBM has been a long time and great partner of ours, dating back to when they made a significant early investment in Linux and then became one of the first hardware platform partner to package and bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux to their customers. Since that time, IBM has continually demonstrated their prowess in building transformative enterprise IT solutions, from infrastructure to applications and services, many of which are based on the foundation of open source. We look forward to accelerating these efforts with our combined companies and continuing to help power the innovation engine of open source.
From IBM’s first billion dollar investment in open source, to Red Hat’s contributions in open source communities and efforts to bring open source into the enterprise, and now, with IBM making a $34 billion investment in Red Hat and the open hybrid cloud - if there was ever any doubt that open source was here to stay, I think this announcement can officially put that argument to rest. And we’re just getting started.
Via @hubertlepicki, and like Hubert said - I’m not sure how I feel about this! What will it mean for CentOS? (One of the best Linux distros for production servers imo.)
I’m mostly curious about what impact this will have on Ansible. It’s really been separating from the pack of Puppet/Chef/CFEngine/Salt lately in terms of adoption. Hope there isn’t a negative impact there.
In my opinion it’s a sad event: similar to DEC being acquired by Compaq and then HP, Sun by Oracle, WhatsApp and Oculus by Facebook, or Skype and GitHub by Microsoft.
My main concern is what will happen with the kernel development and with other important projects such as Fedora and Gnome.
I’m worried about kernel development as well. RedHat have dedicated teams that help the Linux kernel significantly. Corporations end up cutting anything that doesn’t generate immediate profit so this is a bit frightening.
I think its inevitable. After all revenue is the driver for business, even for those that are OSS-oriented. Everything, including companies gets “old” and get acquired, merged or become a tech footnote.
The new “RedHat”, IMHO is HashiCorp, playing on top of multicloud stack.
IBM has had mindshare at Redhat for well over a decade. I was there when the academy reported that open source software was the biggest threat to their business model, and shortly after they announced a $4B “investment” in open source. I was on the core team for the open source community of practice at the time. You will never convince me that they are friendly to the open source community.
Me too, I love OVH. I know some people complain about them but I’m not sure how/why, I’ve never had issues in like 7 years of using them now. The only downtime ever was a Level3 outage, which is not under their control (and was affecting a good chunk of the 'net). You do kind of need to know how to run your own server as they only deal with the hardware (virtual or bare) and the software/OS is all yours, but that’s how I prefer it (by far) anyway.
Having used VPSes with Linode for a few years now, I’m thinking about trying my first dedicated/bare metal server with OVH for my Python and Elixir sites. I noticed that on their forum there are some complaints about lack of responses to support requests and delays with deploying servers with no communication, but I guess I’ll give them a go.
… I assume you will get vmware machine at least
