[PLUG] CentOS going away, viva Rocky?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Dec 10 21:54:50 UTC 2020


On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Jake Bottero wrote:

> It is not surprising that IBM has taken this misguided path, they fail to
> understand that Enterprise users of CentOS will not simply start buying
> overpriced licenses for RHEL, they will bail out for Ubuntu Server. IBM’s
> misjudgment on this marks the beginning of the end for RHEL. Been nice to
> know you...

Mid-last century IBM acknowledged that they were not selling leading edge
technology, but on-site customer support and hand-holding. That also did in
DEC and other companies such as Xerox.

I read about CentOS' demise on Ars Technica this morning and was not at all
surprised.

Stay well,

Rich




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