[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Simba]

The DoD and any other government agencies should be using Debian.

Support for the system does not have to be provided by the maintainers
of the software. Support could come from any trustworthy American
technology firm.

Debian is the best choice because it is the most open and free, as well
as the most stable and mature, as well as offering full capabilities in
terms of applications and security. It's simply the best choice.

To limit government systems to inferior operating systems because they
offer commercial support from the developers is very 1980s.


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On 10/29/18 6:52 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> IBM buys a revenue stream then squeezes the budget the produces that
> revenue until every one quits. So they then off-shore the workforce
> until the customers get fed up with crappy/non-existent service/quality
> and go elsewhere.
> 
> Since RedHat has huge DoD support contracts and IBM has been squeezed
> out from Fed contracts in the past for shady business dealing, buying
> RedHat leverages the support need into a blind eye for more shady
> business deals.
> 
> Banks are turning away from AIX and towards RedHat. So this pulls the
> banks back to IBM (kicking and crying).
> 
> Maybe SuSE can step up to fill the RHEL shoes. They are 1/10 the size
> and owned by a mixed bag tech corp. Ubuntu doesn't have/spend the cash
> to support a call center with a datacenter packed with every vendors
> hardware at half the revenue of SuSE. Debian has no resources. None of
> the other distros are anywhere large enough.
> 
> CentOS has a substantial following but is all volunteer. Fedora is
> mostly volunteer and backed by RedHat. Many upstream, very solid
> projects like Ovirt, FreeIPA, Gluster, (all tools I use daily), are
> heavily supported by RedHat. Those are the best target for IBM to cut
> funding for to boost that purchase. No need to extend/support a project
> already being sold.
> 
> On October 29, 2018 1:33:49 AM EDT, "A. P. Garcia"
> <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 9:30 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
>     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>         Agreed. IBM kills everything they touch 
> 
> 
>     That sounds like Oracle. RIP Sun Microsystems.
> 
> 
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