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He seems a bit sour. Not sure why this statement is necessary to begin with

• flurdy 8y ago
  Yes, not sure what he wanted to achieve with it. A press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.
• toyg 8y ago
  Standard operating procedure for the enterprise: "our competitor is dead but the field is still alive - our stuff is better anyway and you don't want to be a <BigCo> customer, give us a call". The prose just feels a bit disjointed, it could have been worded better, but it's absolutely normal to see press releases commenting tne demise of big competitors in a relatively-small space.
• thepumpkin1979 8y ago
  They just wanted to say this: > The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.
• Foobar8568 8y ago
  Because companies love Gartner, and Gartner loves IBM.