[PLUG] IBM acquires Redhat

[Ben Koenig]

Alas, my attempts to point out reality have once again been thwarted by
hype and lofty opinions.

I'll just put on my Big Blue Hat and continue watching as Linux continues
stomping third-world platforms into the dirt. If the Digital Cinema
industry throws a tantrum over this I'll find out soon enough.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:26 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ken Stephens wrote:
>
> > Check out Cringely's article on IBM and Red Hat.
> > https://www.cringely.com/
>
>    In the 1980s I was told by IBMers that the company acknowledged it was
> not
> a technology company but a service company. Because IBM put engineers at
> mainframe client sites to oversee the big iron they gained new customers.
> Their technical staff knew the IMB hardware/software was behind what other
> vendors put out, but as Cringely explains, IBM was built on its sales force
> and that's what allowed it to survice.
>
>    As an aside, I see the push for everyone to put all their data as
> drizzle
> in someone's cloud is a return to the centralized mainframe environment but
> much less secure. Feh!
>
> Rich
>
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