Thanks for the tip. It really fits with something I was going to post; the PC industry is in chaos and collapse. IBM and Linux to the rescue. I have doubts it's so much about "The Cloud," as the article implies. Intel quit making motherboards a few years ago and is screwing around with UEFI flavor of the month. They want to jam streaming graphics into a multicore CPU that sucks hundreds of watts. Or they push their Nuc line these days. Microsoft can't take care of satisfied Windows7 64 bit users anymore. And, as is their habit, have their cash hungry palm out to degrade your PC. Yet, the development needs of a PC standard is accelerating greater than ever. If you can't live without 10GB of RAM, TBytes disks, high resolution LCD panels, 2GHz multi-core CPUs, fast internet, that run a decade and swap out in a day...well, carry your selfie phone to the shower with you. Industry needs a PC like a farmer needs a pick-up truck, and Ford needs to keep making them. Or like USSteel needs to keep making steel in the US. And the big players are saving all our asses again, thank you. Shawn Fertch wrote: > Exactly why I'm not sure how this will turn out and not quite sure > what to say. I'm concerned that IBM may change the focus of RHEL, and > Linux in general by changing how involved with the community Red Hat > has been. > > What will they do with competing technologies such as Big Fix and > Satellite or Ansible? IBM hasn't always been good to the tecnologies > they acquire over the years. I agree with you in that time will tell. > > All this being said, I'm surprised that IBM didn't acquire SuSE years > ago with how deeply involved they were with it back then. > > -Shawn > > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:21 PM r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com> wrote: >> >> RHEL has become the enterprise standard for Linux. This may become a significant disruption to enterprise strategies. Time will tell. >> >> On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 15:09 -0500, Clug wrote: >> >> IBM have been supporting Linux for ages, and Red Hat are a commercial >> entity who sell a commercial product as well as services. >> >> Unless you're a commercial entity yourself and use Red Hat's products and >> services, I don't think this will really affect you much, if at all. >> >> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, Shawn Fertch wrote: >> >> >> Not sure what to say... >> >> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat >> >> -Shawn >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >