-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/28/2018 4:49 PM, Steve Roylance via luv-main wrote:
hi
here is the link to IBM's announcement
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely- Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider
On 29/10/18 07:32, Lev Lafayette via luv-main wrote:
This is fairly big deal..
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-acq uire-red-hat.html
Prior to the acquisition, Red Hat's market capitalization stood at
approximately $20.5 billion.
The acquisition is by far IBM's largest deal ever, and the third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech.
I'm quite optimistic about this pending $34 billion aquisition. Unlike the knee jerk frenzy surrounding the Microsoft aquisition of Github, IBM (already painted historically as a victim in the whole OS/2 debacle with Microsoft) has managed to be portrayed as a champion of FOSS where Linux based projects are concerned. Quite the opposite connotations seem to exist where the Evil EllisonCo's (Oracle) clone of RHEL (Unbreakable) is concerned. Instead of embracing and suppporting the FOSS spirit, Oracle (to me, anyway) seemed to be merely constructing a bridge of forced conveyance towards their propietary offerings. Sorry if I've offended anyone, but Bill Joy (creator of the [functional] Internet IMNSHO) is one of my personal heroes, and the vaporized remnants of Sun Microsystems, among other destructive business initiatives, has left a really bad taste in my mouth. At the very least, the Evil EllisonCo could have kept the Sun logo extant in techie popular culture lol. - -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services http://NorthTech.US TEL: +1.310.421.8268 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Find this cert at hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEENWT7St9Eg6sLyiLAuIw5wQytyEkFAlvXqXgACgkQuIw5wQyt yEndDgf/cNj0tvnEFMmni1/fgTMFJMLompOGT9FuGLF/db/H9SFPYaCoTw4/JV8r 1d+5Igc1eoC1wYJzgO87SQd+5XuzRr5RqPt7z4lQJ+MT/Z1xffCR7AG3btD3B4M7 vqdporHkkY6Wz/lSIulvAaauUB60aZyKsPc8dlj0A/uTB1W0Tr2MxuECi6boMq5c xT2tbueYRNoEvtuJfGDU7dSbs2bOK2VbaBtdoqMO/KBAzz+g+Gput+ftDhvmD+vX kse/rA8mVWuGAnztfUlhvXt57cQE2Xu+c+CyBY+4UcGOrT2PSZKyi1UvmTk/bpYp 8jBhoMUvRtQbaUouMWAuoEOSmOdsXg== =39PB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus