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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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hadrien01 ◴[08 Dec 25 14:48 UTC] No.46192816[source]▶
Genuine question: how did the IBM acquisitions of Red Hat and HashiCorp turn out?

For Red Hat, there's no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL, but apart from that they seemingly have been left alone and able to continue to develop their own products. But that's only my POV as a user of OSS Red Hat products at home and of RHEL and OpenShift at work.

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1. worthless-trash ◴[09 Dec 25 04:50 UTC] No.46201336[source]▶
> no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL

What do you mean by that, like "centos/stream" (aka https://www.centos.org/download/ ) ?

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2. maxloh ◴[11 Dec 25 07:48 UTC] No.46228743[source]▶
CentOS Stream employs a rolling-release model, which is much less stable than RHEL.

The previous main selling point of CentOS was bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL. Red Hat is just killing the distro by moving their focus to a non-existent market. Enthusiasts will choose RHEL, while enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL, which Red Hat could earn money from, or alternatives like Alma or Rocky.