There isn't a distribution which gives current Red Hat users a Red Hat-like experience without systemd.
So, no, there aren't enough distributions; the world is short by at least one ;-) |
Bryan Lunduke - Red Hat, IBM, & the Corporate Consolidation of Linux
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Well, I can think of one big negative - if Microsoft feels this is a business threat such that they go back to their cold-war with Linux.
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34 billion for Redhat is ALOT. Redhat has a revenue of about 2 billion and a profit of about 300 million per year. A modest valuation would put the value of Redhat at about 3 billion. A less moderate valuation of perhaps 5 billion.
So 34 billion is absolutely an offer they cannot decline. That's about 100x P/E. Is this a good thing or bad thing? Well, IBM is not the worst IMO. Microsoft, Apple, Google etc, those are the worst. |
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It seems that Red Hat stock was at $116.68 when IBM initiated the purchase process. So the total valuation at NYSE was ~$20.51 billion. IBM buys the stock at $190 (+63%) for a total amount of ~$34 billion. But of course, stock can vary daily and "valuations" are very relative depending on what aspects you consider... |
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20 billion was a high valuation, and IBM's offer was good even compared with that. My point is, the bid was a good bid, too good to reject. |
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As for IBM taking over Redhat, I suspect that the good will outweigh the bad and I wish them good fortune with it. I find it ironic that Steve Jobs saw IBM as Big Brother (though I can see why just from appearances) but Microsoft behaved far more like Big Brother than IBM ever dreamed but that Business Plan has largely seen it's day. It's a new Jungle out there folks and the Old Guard is struggling to adapt. |
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IBM is also a large patent troll, pretty much on a par with Microsoft.
In order to change it's business model it has laid off thousands of people over the last few years and this is still going on: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-the-business As with SUSE before it, Red Hat's fortunes are firmly in the hands of a giant multinational corporation. As with SUSE, it could spend the best part of the next 15 years or so being passed around, bought and sold... |
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Let us not forget the lessons of history and blindly trusting a company that was actively assisting the Nazi regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust |
Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._the_Holocaust. This is not history forum.
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