News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on IBM acquires Red Hat. Parent comment

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by ianai on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:46PM (#18322678)
Where’s the history of IBM buying and sun setting companies? I don’t have the same prejudice towards IBM that I do for Oracle. But I’m not in a position to know.

I’m thinking RHEL’s support contracts will keep IBM from shuttering RHEL. An IBM branded RHEL would represent plenty of income.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by Ice_cream_suit on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:08PM (#18322838)
Rational Rose, Lotus
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by ianai on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:43PM (#18323047)
Can you expand?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by shmerl on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:04PM (#18322808)
They can cancel many projects that RedHat do as a general giving back to Linux. IBM wouldn't care.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by LinuxBender on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:43PM (#18323932)
Sequent, though I can't see them doing the same things to RH.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by alexott on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:01PM (#18322790)
ISS?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by ranieuwe on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:52PM (#18322725)
SPSS comes to mind.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by ianai on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:43PM (#18323041)
Can you expand?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by jacobsheehy on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:12PM (#18322866)
WeatherUnderground was effectively shut down post-purchase. API signup is gone, etc. Terrible transition and no support for prior products.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by onesmalldrop on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:39PM (#18323913)
This is 0% true...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by windexh8er on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:40PM (#18324630)
This is 100% true. They abandoned so many good parts of WU and, today, it seems to continue to operate as data collection (mobile apps / home weather stations) and ad revenue generation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by rhodysurf on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:12PM (#18324250)
Weather underground is a shell of what it used to be. They got rid of a ton of features and cluttered everything with ads
[ Parent | on HN ]