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They could probably partner with Red Hat. I would've laughed at the idea 10 years ago, but these days, I wouldn't be that surprised. When they've had OS-ish int
by TallGuyShort 7y ago
They could probably partner with Red Hat. I would've laughed at the idea 10 years ago, but these days, I wouldn't be that surprised. When they've had OS-ish integrations needed for things like machine-based authentication, RHEL has been treated like a first class citizen. I'm not sure how much Amazon Linux really changes other than branding and some baked-in tuning - unless you're really going to commit to maintaining the OS, just providing a minimal RHEL-based image makes a lot of sense.
- closeparen 7y agoWhy would IBM undermine its own cloud like that though?
- StreamBright 7y agoIBM is not a serious player in the cloud segment.
- rurban 7y agoDid you forget that IBM bought Red Hat? It's one of the strongest cloud players now.
- StreamBright 7y agoI did not however, RedHat is not even remotely close to be one of a strongest players. IBM is hoovering around 10%ish, RedHat has no cloud offering that could be taken seriously. Most of the cloud vendors are competing in the public cloud segment (even though with VPC this is arguably more complex question) while RedHat focuses on private cloud, offering mostly OpenStack.
- TallGuyShort 7y agoThey have many, many partnerships that undermine their own offerings. Their strategy is less about being the best at something but being your one-stop-shop to get something that works for everything.
- chd_ 7y agoAzure and RH are partners already, at least regarding OpenShift. With RHs push of RHEL Atomic and the purchase of CoreOS you also get minimal images of linux there. Another noteworthy thing are the Universal Base Images (UBI) by RedHat.