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Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

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37 points Bender | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 23:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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sparrish ◴[08 Sep 25 23:53 UTC] No.45175670[source]▶
I'm surprised it took this long. It is/was inevitable.
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jmclnx ◴[09 Sep 25 01:57 UTC] No.45176525[source]▶
From my experience, 6 years is about right, maybe a slighty longer than normal.

When IBM purchased Lotus, they pretty left it alone left it alone for 5 years. In 2000 changes started to be forced on Lotus and in a year or two, it was gone.

So, IBM bought RH in 2019, it is now 2025, that seems to have followed their play book almost exactly. I also think other large acquisition proceeded the same way.

Well, luckily there are other distros out there should IBM/RHEL stumble during this "assimilation".

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1. bestouff ◴[09 Sep 25 07:04 UTC] No.45178504[source]▶
There are not many distros investing so much in the ecosystem - really, there is none. This would be a big, big loss.
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2. jmclnx ◴[09 Sep 25 17:53 UTC] No.45185688[source]▶
I can only assume you are correct since my experience with RHEL is limited.

But I believe SUSE should be an OK alternative for some companies.