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I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for
by devnonymous 11y ago
I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).
- marcoamorales 11y agoWhat are you buying when the technology is open source?
- eeZi 11y agoThe dev team?
- bandrami 11y agoThe team and the existing user base
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- devnonymous 11y agoThe direction in which the technology evolves. That's also the reason why Red Hat hires a lot of upstream developers[1]. It is easier to tailor your services and offer better support (ie: the revenue stream for Red Hat) for OSS when the developers who write it are on your payroll. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/red-hat-leads-open-source-contributions-to-kernel
- gsnedders 11y agoNot all of Ansible's technology is open source.