Understandable, as IBM has always targeted the enterprise solutions market. Having control over (I think still?) the most popular enterprise linux installation

Understandable, as IBM has always targeted the enterprise solutions market. Having control over (I think still?) the most popular enterprise linux installation is a nice add to their business. It opens greater flexibility for their servers, as they have 'ownership' of the distro now. Possible bid for a speed benchmark as a selling point? Some of the giants out there are going to be hard to beat for that though... I don't know that they are doing this specifically for the cloud market.