Exactly why I'm not sure how this will turn out and not quite sure what to say. I'm concerned that IBM may change the focus of RHEL, and Linux in general by changing how involved with the community Red Hat has been. What will they do with competing technologies such as Big Fix and Satellite or Ansible? IBM hasn't always been good to the tecnologies they acquire over the years. I agree with you in that time will tell. All this being said, I'm surprised that IBM didn't acquire SuSE years ago with how deeply involved they were with it back then. -Shawn On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:21 PM r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com> wrote: > > RHEL has become the enterprise standard for Linux. This may become a significant disruption to enterprise strategies. Time will tell. > > On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 15:09 -0500, Clug wrote: > > IBM have been supporting Linux for ages, and Red Hat are a commercial > entity who sell a commercial product as well as services. > > Unless you're a commercial entity yourself and use Red Hat's products and > services, I don't think this will really affect you much, if at all. > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, Shawn Fertch wrote: > > > Not sure what to say... > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat > > -Shawn > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list