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Statement on the IBM Acquisition of Red Hat

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31 pointsdbattaglia14 comments

He seems a bit sour. Not sure why this statement is necessary to begin with

They just wanted to say this:

> The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.

Standard operating procedure for the enterprise: "our competitor is dead but the field is still alive - our stuff is better anyway and you don't want to be a <BigCo> customer, give us a call".

The prose just feels a bit disjointed, it could have been worded better, but it's absolutely normal to see press releases commenting tne demise of big competitors in a relatively-small space.

Yes, not sure what he wanted to achieve with it.

A press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.

Because companies love Gartner, and Gartner loves IBM.

Reads like an assurance to customers and investors that Ubuntu is able to compete with IBM.

More like "If you've been on WebSphere for the last 20 years and your architecture team is starting to move to AWS, don't think the IBM acquisition means you should use RHEL containers."

statement translated:

I have a similar business to sell, show me your 10 figures offer and let's talk.

I'm curious if Amazon will find motivation to rebuild Amazon Linux, it being based on RHEL at the moment.

This reads like Mark Shuttleworth kicking himself in the ass for focusing on Ubuntu Phone instead of building an OpenShift equivalent.

Isn't that Juju?

Juju is Canonical trying to play catchup after years betting on the wrong tech direction.

I'm not an Ubuntu hater - I've been a devoted user since ~'06. But one can't deny that RH made better business decisions over the last decade, by not chasing the "windows killer" dragon.

I don't disagree on the overall argument, but Juju is as old as openshift -- it just failed to get traction.

It seems like Ubuntu people are pretty good at coming up with usable tech, but pretty bad at fostering overall adoption of their solutions. Pretty much all their "ecosystem" projects have failed, even where the alternative wasn't particularly loved (upstart vs systemd). They desperately need better evangelists -- but they won't get them, as long as they ignore my job application ;)

Sounds like someone is jealous they're not worth 34 Billion...

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