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What is that line? “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”? I think the main appeal for enterprises is that if their VM’s start going down and thousands flush t
by leokennis 3y ago
What is that line? “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”?
I think the main appeal for enterprises is that if their VM’s start going down and thousands flush through the drain every second, someone at Red Hat is there to pick up the phone and hop on a call with their engineers. It makes them and their regulators happy and no other Linux distro offers that. I don’t think they care about open source at all.
- freedomben 3y ago> What is that line? “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”? It's a wildly common saying in enterprise, and it basically means, "if you choose a startup or unknown product, it might go really well or it might be a bomb that gets you fired. If you choose IBM, you'll spend more, get less of a product with less quality, but you'll never get fired for it because IBM is a 'safe choice'" > I think the main appeal for enterprises is that if their VM’s start going down and thousands flush through the drain every second, someone at Red Hat is there to pick up the phone and hop on a call with their engineers. It makes them and their regulators happy and no other Linux distro offers that. I don’t think they care about open source at all. Correct, enterprises don't care at all about open source. This is IMHO a bit part of why Red Hat is stopping caring as much. Now that said, when I was a consultant with Red Hat I worked with a ton of RH customers and there were individual engineers who did care. Not nearly as many as I hoped, but there were at least some.