Just to add some ”inside baseball” to this thread, I work for Rakuten Symphony so can give my take from my perspective, be they right or wrong. The open discus

Just to add some ”inside baseball” to this thread, I work for Rakuten Symphony so can give my take from my perspective, be they right or wrong. The open discussion and different points of view is what is so healthy if something wants to get stronger. We are breaking apart the traditional monolith deployments in radio base stations, that are deployed at a very large distributed scale. For example we are deploying 30,000 edge nodes to do real time processing of radio baseband signalling, 23,000 of them in the the next 10 months. Now these workloads have more in common with high performance computing than they do with running standard business application systems, so we are aware we have to modify the kernel to make it cope with the real time requirements. We are removing the monolithic model because we know we can reduce the costs and increase the deployment optionality. And the existing enterprise OS licensing model was prohibitively expensive at this scale. And then our open source choices were changed. We are happy to contribute our real time learnings back to a community since that helps us help the community to help us. What we have done is not for everybody, and others need to make their own choices for their own reasons. But we believe it is having those choices is what creates a healthy industry. And we no longer had the choices we wanted, so we want to contribute to making them for others.