IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT ➹

Considering the way things are going for IBM in general, my knee-jerk reaction was to hope they won’t drag down Red Hat with them. My second thought was that they have an unusual definition of “hybrid”…

Then again, they are still huge (hence their downfall having been in slow motion, and likely preventable) and Red Hat is the centerpiece for most enterprise Linux deployments (supporting Oracle and SAP workloads, to name a few), so there’s plenty of business there. Also, Ansible and OpenShift are tied up in this…

It’s also worth noting that with SuSE’s recent acquisition by EQT, Canonical (which is an arguably more cloud-friendly distro anyway) is likely to be next–which I’m positive Mark Shuttleworth will have strong words about… Right?

Update: Here’s Mark’s take.