Red Hat signs off last set of numbers before it is likely gobbled by IBM With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates. The US regulatory authorities have already given Red Hat the thumbs-up to be consumed by something Big …
Red Hat seems blissfully unaware that India Business Machines is just going to shutter most of the Raleigh operation and ship the jobs offshore. I spoke with some of our reps and they seem to think that it's Red Hat who will change the culture of IBM, not the other way around. I'd love it if that were true, but somehow I doubt it.
RedHat have just rolled out a large subscription price hike and the majority of users just paid it.
That's the kind of customers IBM likes. Normally IBM gets a software company once it's past it's peak rather than at or approaching it's peak.
I doubt IBM will look to kill the golden goose quickly. I'd be surprised if we see any noticeable IBM splash screens and logos before RHEL9.
Will RedHat change IBM's culture? That depends on what you think IBM's culture is. If you expect the culture to be accountants that are more resistant than MRSA then at least you're a realist...
I'm totally ok with Redhat getting sliced, diced and ground to bits in the proverbial IBM meat grinder. And sow their fields to salt while at it. After all, they gave us Ggnnnnome and Sssystemd (insert Sytherin sounds here) Oh, and RPM... and the ultimate evil: -> Rpmbuild <-!!!
Red Hat can just shrivel and die and the Linux ecosystem will just get out from underneath its cold dead thumb and grow faster than ever before. A pox upon Redhat and a pox upon Redhat's smarmy salesmen who think that copying Linux is stealing from Redhat.
IBM closes $34 billion deal to buy Red Hat
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-redhat-m-a-ibm-eu/ibm-closes-34-billion-deal-to-buy-red-hat-idUSKCN1U41DA
- 2019-07-09
From now on all that money goes to Big Blue.
Expect license cost increases to follow, and eventually the elimination of the parts of RedHat that do not fit with the long term plans or meet the IBM revenue targets.
So long, it was great while it lasted.
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