Re: between a rock and a hard place
The often heard cry of organisations - if only we could ditch Oracle's expensive solutions and go with IBM instead.
If IBM choose to make a cost/performance competitive Red Hat/x86 alternative to SQL Server on Windows/x86, then you may have a point, but it's likely to be hurt IBM's Power business on one side and struggle against MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB for existing RedHat users on the other. And then there's the challenge of getting application vendors to port from Oracle to DB2.
And then there's the likelihood that Oracle will benefit from IBM ramping up support costs for Red Hat. Yes it's speculation, but if RedHat licence/support costs rise at or below inflation for the next two years after a big rise in 2018, I would be surprised.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
