Posted on Oct 29, 2018
IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion
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IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion
Posted from businessinsider.com
IBM
Linux
Open Source
Posted 6 y ago
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Not good news for Linux. It will likely become bloatware like the rest of MS.
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SGT (Join to see) - IBM and MS business model - intertwine all programs with other IBM or MS products to create dependence. Wonder if Linux will still be open source.
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CWO3 (Join to see) - Red Hat isn't all of Linux. The Linux kernel is ran by its creator and Linux Foundation, and Red Hat is built on Fedora. If anything, negative impact may scare RHEL / CentOS users to another server OS.
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SGT (Join to see) - You're probably right and definitely more informed on this topic.
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CWO3 (Join to see) - The first 2 sentences are fact. The last sentence is an educated guess.
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...and they'll destroy it just as they destroyed every other software company they ever bought
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SGT (Join to see)
I read your statement as an exaggeration. Then I read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_IBM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_IBM
List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM - Wikipedia
The following is a partial list of IBM precursors, acquisitions and spinoffs. IBM has undergone a large number of mergers and acquisitions during a corporate history lasting over a century; the company has also produced a number of spinoffs during that time.
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