IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door... IBM is talking up the success of its Red Hat as Big Blue continues its efforts to ax losing businesses. The enterprise IT giant made its newest big acquisition a central focus of its third-quarter financial numbers [PDF], published Wednesday. For the three months to September 30: Revenues of $18bn were down 3.9 per cent from …
Improbable, as RedHat, just like any other Linux Distro, is pretty replaceable.
Re-training support staff from RHEL to another distro should be completed quickly if need be.
There's just not enough lock-in potential for IBM to get away with big price hikes or changes in the licensing fine print the way Oracle does it.
That said, I like RHEL, the way RedHat behaved as a company and how they were easy to work with.
I hope that will not change under IBM.
But, if it does, we are ready to move...
RedHat, just like any other Linux Distro, is pretty replaceable
I wouldn't go quite that far with DedRat - it seems to be the base of a lot of other distributions.
However, I wouldn't cry many tears if it did disappear because then the abomination that is systemd might disappear as well.
They already have indirectly, they changed the definition of academic licenses to exclude research institutions same as Microsoft. The new price was “exciting” enough that we’re dumping them. We are not going to spend that much per year of charity money on OS support.
Should be coming soon. I've already got word of a few people in IBM Services whose last day is 31st December (giving enough notice so that IBM only has to pay bare minimum in redundancy payouts per local legislation.)
I've noticed a ton of jobs pulled from the internal jobs site as they can try to find another job internally before the RA kicks in. At the same time, we are getting emails telling us how we can earn $ recommending staff with the right skill sets to join.
I was a sub on one of their contracts until the beginning of this year. It seemed pretty clear that the bean counters were running things upstream. The techs I worked with were pretty good but the contract was in constant trouble.
Once again IBM messes up big time. They introduced their new AC922 and all of the development on the Power 8 Minskey goes down the toilet. Because some moron decided without telling anyone including their own tech support that they no longer supported OpenGL.
Totally a moronic decision as they introduced the new (at the time) V100 NWLInk solution.
When IBM took over we saw nothing good in this, except for IBM and eventual price rises. We are currently scoping CentOS, SuSE and Ubuntu server.
I personally hate IBM with a passion, for hardware, they take our money and just send parts + support is close to non-existent. they are just circling the bathplug hole.
Itsy Bitsy Morons head honcho has been implementing her policy of open duck and goose hunting season for a long time now. If you are a valuable tech your rewards will be to work harder or get out. Any chance of getting proper recognition of talent or good work is tied to the ability of spreadsheets and presentation slides... And the idiots in Delivery trained to parrot and squawk technical vomit are lead by brainless political vindictive PHBs.
How do you get shrinking revenues on 5-year and 10-year contracts I say! Promise loads of nonsense to keep high cost idiots and fire hardworking nose-grinders while rehiring former toxic trash who left for "reasons"
IBM is still at a point where eating your own, is considered the most profitable.
Depending on the quarter (which is most), more and more leaf workers are deemed too expensive to retain even if they are exemplary.
At some point, Ginni and Watson will be the last two running the company.
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