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It's been an oft-heard refrain at tech conferences that IBM "doesn't know what it's bought" with regard to Red Hat. Usually meant positively, it seems it might be a bit closer to the truth than anyone thought; at least, for Big Blue's marketing department. As IBM closes its $34bn slurpage of Red Hat, the IT giant has seen fit …
"when we talk about the 'IBM Cloud' we refer to the totality of our cloud capabilities."
Translation: we plan to include other vendors cloud revenue in our future market statements to deliver on our cloud strategy while the IBM cloud makes such a strong argument for on-premises solutions.
Lovely, RedHat was toxic for Linux anyway, with their cancer called Wayland, SystemD, PulseAudio, ...
Now can we please free Debian from these dump inventions of RedHat hell (Wayland, Systemd, PulseAudio)?
I would rather not upgrade to a distro with these abortions, so please either suck it up and revert the hell out of it, or I will switch to Devuan or even FreeBSD soon to get rid of that corporate BS. And I wish RH good look sinking deep inside deep blue.
We're not getting Debian back. I switched to Devuan way back when and it's fine. Stop talking about "maybe doing it someday," just move on and get on with your life. You don't have to live like a refugee, I believe the song goes. Never knew what it meant exactly, but I'm pretty sure he was singing about OS components.
On second thoughts, as well as not mentioning "open" and "stack", please also don't mention "hybrid multicloud platform" unless it's the IBM Hybrid Multicloud Platform (TM), in which case... just plaster a fake smile on your face and refer back to "I" for obvious reasons that we don't quite understand.
Actually, it's better that you just keep your little mouths shut; that way no-one will realise it's all just bullshit and that we don't really understand it properly ourselves.
Thanks peeps.
I hardly think IBM having invested fully into Cloud shouting it from the rooftops will abandon anything cloud... cue their self-inflicted injuries by destroying lifetime work of employees in said area of open and stack by sabotaging it worldwide. There is a special hell for the buttholes who take stellar work and dump it into the cesspit of history. Ironic how now the butts produce shite as output...
Anon b'cas ima coward.
Given IBM marketing penchant for renaming products that don't sell here some help to get them on their way--
(147, 112, 219) scarf
Mauve Collar
Thistle Tie
Orchid Shirt
Mulberry Underpants
Purpureus Trousers
Heliotrope Stocking Suspenders
--- and finally
Blue Socks
Please avoid at all costs "psychedelic purple" and "Pansy Purple" or at least use "#78184A".