I know that several years ago, more than a decade, IBM was selling a solution of running some thousand instances of Red Hat on a 390. I don't know how that competed with racks of commodity etc but I can imagine there were advantages in the backbone. Anyway they were selling it way back, which at the time I thought was progressive. But I'm just an application developer. Peter
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 AM INKozin via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > exactly my thoughts (even though i have not worked there, talking to its > employees was enough). > it's attitude towards open source is not exactly promising. > the recent github deal comes to mind but at least MS is declaring to be > more open towards open source. > and at least there is an alternative in that case - gitlab. > what would be an alternative to RH? certainly not a single one. > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 07:43, Tony Brian Albers <t...@kb.dk> wrote: > >> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-softw >> are-company-red-hat-for-34-billion-idUSKCN1N20N3 >> <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-software-company-red-hat-for-34-billion-idUSKCN1N20N3> >> >> I wonder where that places us in the not too distant future.. >> >> I've worked for Big Blue, and I'm not sure the company cultures are >> compatible to say the least. >> >> /tony >> >> -- >> -- >> Tony Albers >> Systems Architect >> Systems Director, National Cultural Heritage Cluster >> Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. >> Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316 >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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