With just a peek at the NYT bios of IBM top execs I feel as though community based software development is safe and RHEL is safe, for now. Watson is their heavy hitter. What does this list think of Watson??? A future with any corporation is a future of peril. The story of commorode 64 is an example. When the product was advancement and not sales the corporation shifted. This meant the axe. And where is the Amiga or the C64 or C128 now (I wanted a C128 very badly). Dead of course. About Ubuntu, 17.04 is probably dead, 18.04 is probably better, server 16.04 (plus gnome for desktop) is great. People will still use 11.04 also. Your old Unix tricks will be necessary as installing from .gz in /opt/ is often a solid bet. It is more or less a desktop community but that could easily change if a beowolf direction emerged on for examle Ask Ubuntu. Not tha I want enemies in corporate America but that some people would rather have their hands on; something which could be lost.
On Oct 29, 2018 12:43 AM, "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
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