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Unsurprising, really. I wonder if they can ever pull a SuSE and get out of IBM again, just as SuSE got out of Novell.

• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  I don’t think there’s anything stopping Redhat folks from starting a new enterprise and building another commercial version off of CentOS. If successful, they could strip mine IBM for the useful Redhat talent and leave IBM with the cruft.
  • Shared404 6y ago
    That might be difficult though, with IBM retaining the brand that people aren't fired for purchasing. IT would know to go with the Redhat talent, but would management go with it?
    • goatinaboat 6y ago
      That might be difficult though, with IBM retaining the brand that people aren't fired for purchasing. The MariaDB guys pulled it off
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      RedHat has good enterprise relations, but it doesn't seem to be a no-brainer brand the way old school IBM was or the way Microsoft more recently has been. If they can get some decent enterprise sales, support, and profesional services folks as well as developers, they’ll do fine.
      • corty 6y ago
        I'm not so sure there. RedHat is what you pick to check a box somewhere that says "OS supported with this software/hardware/whatever". There isn't really a technical argument to pay for RedHat over CentOS, beyond box-ticking. Now a RedHat-replacement would first have to get all software and hardware vendors to support their new no-name distro. And given that this has even been hard on Oracle, I'm sceptical in general...