[GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

[David Collier-Brown]

I used to work on an "datacenter as a service" offering from Sun (now 
Snoracle). We made a few cubic yards of dollars from providing 
datacenters for the US military to do moderately confidential 
processing. Most of the equipment in the buildings, though, were 
el-cheapo dells. /They/ took money away in trailer-truck loads.

IBM had and has a similar offering, and similar dell envy.  I suspect 
this is a move to make a credible offering in the next few RFPs.

Amazon wants the same thing.

--dave

On 2018-11-07 10:59 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote)
> The takeover seems to be about "cloud".  IBM doesn't seem to be as big
> a cloud player as they need to be.  Red Hat hasn't failed here but I
> would not say that it has been a great success.  I'm surprised how
> Ubuntu seems to have much more share than Red Hat, for very little
> fundamental work.

-- 
David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain

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