On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:28:31 +0000, you wrote: >There is one thing that is going to be super interesting to see. Red hat >fairly recently absorbed Centos Dev's and added them to the pay roll. > >Two questions yet to be answered are
Well, anything is obviously possible and there is certainly examples of companies ruining / running into the ground aquisitions. But with the deal not being completed for another 6 months or so there will be a lot of ananswered questions for a while. >1) whats the future of Centos This one is easy (at least in a sensible world) - CentOS needs to continue. The biggest threat to RHEL isn't lost sales to CentOS but losing customers and mindshare to Ubuntu (which certainly appears to have been an issue the last number of years based on the number of software projects that support Ubuntu but not Red Hat). Anything that helps maintain / stop the erosion of minshare / marketshare needs to be supported and to me CentOS delivers that (at least to the extent of what Red Hat is willing to do). >2) whats the future of Fedora. More difficult to answer, and in some ways goes beyond Fedora. There are some uncomfortable (from an open source purity standpoint) questions that need to be faced, and Fedora in some ways complicates them given it is officially community run and governed. I my opinion it is a question Red Hat should have discussing at the executive level if if the IBM deal hadn't come along. _______________________________________________ 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
