CentOS - Oct 2018 - IBM buying RedHat

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> On Sun, October 28, 2018 6:07 pm, mark wrote:
>> On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote:
>>> On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain p??an wrote:
>>>
>>>> Le 28/10/2018 ?? 22:10, Albert McCann a ??crit??:
>>>>> Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep.
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has
also
>>>> contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel.
>>>> I don't know how bad it is and the implications for
CentOS...
>>>
>>> That old war wound started aching again.
>>>
>>> IBM:Redhat :: Oracle:Sun
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>> Actually, it could have been *much8 worse: *Oracle* could have bought
>> RH.
>>
>> That *really* would have been an order of magnitude worse.
>>
>
> I like the fact that it was IBM who bought RedHat. I remember several good
> things about IBM:
>
> 1. Postfix. Vietse Venema wrote it at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
> Center, and IBM was really happy to release MTA written with security in
> mind under IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software license - for
> everybody to use.
That's one example but I think there is much more in the history of IBM
when looking back.

To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER
and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware
market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)!

Regards,
Simon

On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER
> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware
> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)!
Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time.  The fastest 
supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL.

-- 
Brendan Conoboy / RHEL Development Coordinator / Red Hat, Inc.

> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER
>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware
>> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS
alive)!
>
> Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time.  The fastest
> supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL.
What I meant is that POWER could become a competitor for Intel/AMD based
servers. We're now running AMD EPYC servers with 64Cores/128Threads and we
didn't find any POWER system which could compete in this area.

Also, looking at TOP500 list there are not so many POWER systems anymore.
IBM could change this now.

Regards,
Simon