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RHEL will be around for a long time because the government demands something like it. All the other businesses stacked around it are dubious prospects at best.
by someguydave 7y ago
RHEL will be around for a long time because the government demands something like it. All the other businesses stacked around it are dubious prospects at best.
- windexh8er 7y agoWhile not untrue it would have been far more brilliant for a defense contractor to buy RHEL.
- someguydave 7y agoIBM is a defense contractor.
- windexh8er 7y agoIBM is generally a subcontractor to a prime. They are rarely a prime. IBM doesn't compete in fed at the level Lockheed or Raytheon, for example, do.
- compuguy 7y agoWith the move to cloud services, governments may gravitate towards CentOS (which is based on RHEL)...
- someguydave 7y agoCentOS is owned by Redhat
- compuguy 7y agoI'm quite aware of this.