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   by xyzd23345 3y ago

   Why would they? Managed services were never part of the Red Hat business model. They've added some cloud stuff as of late, but in general you don't go to Red Hat to buy or lease hardware. And I don't think Red Hat ever had an
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   by xyzd23345 3y ago

   I would disagree with RHEL being entrenched by the time of IBMs big push. At the time, you were still more likely to see commercial Unix than Linux at large companies. Red Hat becoming entrenched wasn't a guarantee in my mind until IBM
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   by xyzd23345 3y ago

   To this day every IBM customer I've ever contracted for has also been a Red Hat customer. That even applies for mainframe shops. Sales reps and support and account managers at IBM and Red Hat had eachother on speed dial a decade ago si