I looked at stock price and volume for Cray, IBM, and Red Hat today. Red Hat is impressive.
On Tue, May 21, 2019, 6:20 AM Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2019 18:42:31 -0400, you wrote: > > >I am curious, do you have some evidence for the demise of CentOS > >other than IBM bought RH? > > The important thing to remember about CentOS (and presumably why Red > Hat brought it on board) is that it is not really a RHEL competitor, > rather it is a RHEL marketing tool. > > Red Hat, for RHEL, needs to worry about Ubuntu who (as far as I know) > make no difference between the LTS release publicly available to all > and the version they offer paid support for. > > Red Hat needs a similiar arrangement, and CentOS does that for them. > They need the "free" version of the OS that start ups and companies > can use legally while building a project / business and then when and > if they decide they want paid support then RHEL is the obvious choice. > > If there is no CentOS then that market defaults to Ubuntu, and if you > are running Ubuntu and you now need the insurance that paid support > offers you are unlikely to suddenly change your infrastructure to > RHEL. > > My observation / opinion is that IBM isn't the real threat to Red Hat, > rather Red Hat is the biggest threat to Red Hat. > > Like any organization that has been around for a while various > "kingdoms" have been established within Red Hat, and those combined > with inertia mean Red Hat hasn't been making the changes or tough > decisions that I suspect the market is moving towards. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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