I have seen no specific downside to this. A lot of whatifs. But it is certainly an historic gamble; https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-thinks-really-different-with-red-hat-1540830624 "International Business Machines" makes their biggest purchase ever of a business software company, in the middle of a collapsing PC marketplace, during a business boom. Tens of $billions investment is generated for the combined efforts. I knew a guy in strategic planning of IBM when pushing what we now call the internet (investor's brother-in-law). Believe me, nobody really knew where it was going. But the telephone company, computer companies, manufacturers, and government bet on their best and brightest (which quickly left me out). 1981 was a "what do we do now?" danger time. In a similar situation, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927, 10 years later we were preparing for an air war. The "Great Depression" never hit technology. The market just pulled the rug out from non-essentials. I'm excited as can be for this new opportunity. And grateful to others with faith and hope in our future. Maybe some just don't understand what a computer really is?? Iznogoud wrote: > I would have dismissed this as news, until I heard it on Marketplace this > morning. > > Now I am inclined to believe this is the real issue here: > >> >> RHEL has become the enterprise standard for Linux. This may become a >> significant disruption to enterprise strategies. Time will tell. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >