[RndTbl] IBM to buy RedHat
Gilles Detillieux
grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca
Tue Oct 30 10:50:38 CDT 2018
Yeah, I don't think the risk is IBM pursuing distractions like getting
back into desktop/laptop hardware. IBM gets FOSS, enterprise and cloud
systems enough to know where Red Hat's core strengths are, and what they
bring to the company. The real risk is that $34 billion is a huge
investment for a company the size of IBM, so the pressure will be
enormous to look for "efficiencies" to help pay some of that down. The
corporate culture at IBM is different enough from Red Hat's that if they
don't appreciate the more subtle things that made Red Hat successful,
like its support and technical expertise, they could screw that up.
I think Cringely is probably spot-on when he says Oracle won't like
this, and I don't know how it'll respond or what it's options are. It'll
be interesting to see how Microsoft responds. They've already made moves
in a similar direction (e.g. Github acquisition), but I expect there
might be more, including a closer partnership with, or buyout of, Canonical.
On 10/30/2018 08:44 AM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> Well, IBM doesn't make desktops or laptops any more (sold the business
> to Lenovo), so I don't think that's an option.
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:43 AM Scott Toderash
> <scott at 100percenthelpdesk.com <mailto:scott at 100percenthelpdesk.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Cringely seems fairly accurate.
>
> My first reaction was: good for IBM. Not so sure about RH.
>
> One commentary I saw said something about buying a company that gives
> its main product away for free. That hasn't been true for a VERY long
> time, so mainstreamers will continue to be confused, apparently.
>
> The biggest distraction this could create is if IBM decides that
> this is
> a great time to try again to push desktops or laptops with
> preinstalled
> Linux.
>
>
>
> On 18-10-29 09:10 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> > Red Hat stock is up 47%.
> >
> >> On Oct 29, 2018, at 18:30, Bill Reid <billreid at shaw.ca
> <mailto:billreid at shaw.ca>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Here is Cringely's take on it:
> >> https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/
> >>
> >>> On 2018-10-29 5:46 p.m., Hartmut W Sager wrote:
> >>> IBM to buy RedHat for $34 billion. Comments? (I anticipate
> an avalanche of comments.)
> >>> Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
>
>
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
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