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Oracle basically murdered a ton of Sun open-source projects overnight. Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens
by pxc 4y ago
Oracle basically murdered a ton of Sun open-source projects overnight.
Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions?
- ilyt 4y agoThey will just make it PITA to use if you're not on Red Hat.
- op00to 4y agoThey murdered RHV, that's a good start.
- rwmj 4y agoRed Hat murdered RHV without IBM's help (sad to say).
- op00to 4y agoWas that pre IBM? If so, I stand corrected!
- bonzini 4y agoIt was after but like for CentOS Stream the writing had been on the wall long enough; both rwmj and I are in the virtualization team. There was hardly any new feature between RHV 4.3 (early 2019) and 4.4 (2020, last non-maintenance release) and there literally wasn't time for IBM to say anything about RHV 4.4, considering that feature work for 4.4 would have started before the acquisition (July 2019).
- op00to 4y agoI am sore because I had many customers who were left without a path that made sense for them. Kubevirt is the future but it would be like giving your Grandpop a hoverboard. He’ll break a hip.
- brozaman 4y ago> Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions? OK, my previous comment was an overstatement. This is what's happening.
- pxc 4y agoThat makes more sense. It's still sad to hear. As an outsider, Red Hat always stood out to me as a truly special company. Too few 'open-source' enterprises have figured out how to profitably develop F/OSS in a principled way, without the 'open core' bait-and-switch. It's just the tech company circle of life, I guess. I wonder what younger tech company might play a similar role as Red Hat has another 30 years from now, and if they even exist yet.