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So the hope was that IBM would become Big Red, but instead we're getting Blue Hat.
by cptnapalm 4y ago
So the hope was that IBM would become Big Red, but instead we're getting Blue Hat.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoRed hat was a THIRTY FOUR BILLION DOLLAR acquisition. For a company that dresses up free software for enterprises. No way Red Hat is staying like some gilded ivory tower of open source purity. They are a brand name for selling services and licenses, so if Red Hat still looks after ... wait that was only 3 years ago? Well anyway if Red Hat is still recognizable after that acquisition in some non-IBM way then IBM is showing enormous restraint. The previous 10 years at IBM were "buy company, attach Websphere to the front of their product names, sell, abandon product". Still better than Computer Associates software, but not much better.
- supernovae 4y agowe don’t sell licenses, we sell subscriptions :) IBM has left us alone. I don’t get paid by IBM, my benefits are Red Hat, My CEO is Red Hat’s CEO and funny enough when we work with IBM we lead the calls because IBM is letting us do what we do best. I could sense storage was changing. We had product delays, we kept pushing things out to future releases to expand ODF to our managed services. Evrything was always next quarter. Now it makes sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jboss is next.