Press release.

PS: no it's not April first

Also here : https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...on-4175641325/

...and here https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...69#post5920269

I'm so sad for RH....what a pity...farewell, RH!!!

For those who havn't opened any links here is the moneyshot:

BM (NYSE:IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion!

There's always Centos

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/b...computing.html is their story.

The 'secret' of Linux is that almost all of the development is done by Red Hat employees. Either the rest of us step in or Linux becomes an IBM product.

I believe the GPL prohibits that. But I wonder if IBM will continue Fedora and CentOS, since both are $free.

Of course they will, they are incubators. The IBM and Red Hat model is to create a product and sell the support. Without Open Source the cost is too much and they lose any advantage. Here is the opportunity to put millions of Linux desktops in the office replacing Windows. IBM can know offer an alternative that includes hardware (POWER), desktop, cloud, server. From bottom to top and the insane profits of enterprise support contracts.

Think about it. Security is the big new thing. Performance has reached a point where it is not an argument to compromise future performance for present security. If played right IBM can say we provide secure hardware, a secure operating system, and we provide every computing function role: desktop, server, mainframe, cloud. This will guarantee interoperability between phone, server room, office chair, and also support.

Here is all the source code to review from hardware up, your IT now has to learn only one stack and vendor, and you can always call us.

This is FUD and quite contrary to the facts. Red Hat submitted a whopping 6.5% of all recent Linux changesets. You can add IBM's 4.2% do that number. This is the largest contribution, but hardly 'almost all'.

Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/756031/.

If by "Linux" you mean not only the kernel but things like systemd and desktop software, I want to see your figures.

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Red Hat will become part of IBM's cloud unit. This means that IBM is extremely serious about OpenStack, on which Red Hat's cloud software is based. Good for OpenStack.

No need to become depressive. Take SUSE as an example. They were bought by Novell, which was bought by Attachmate, which sold SUSE to Microfocus, which just sold it to an investor company. After all that, SUSE is still SUSE.

Of course, nobody knows what exactly IBM's plans are. Will they keep Red Hat intact? Cut it into smaller pieces? Dissolve and digest it?

I mean that if only Red Hat develops the software if IBM doesn't want to support some piece of hardware or software protocol, etc., it won't. When Microsoft was strong it could kill superior alternatives to its software (what happened to Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBase...?) by unsupporting them.