A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud

Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by cwyers on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:19PM (#20475219)

> But if the strategic logic is to “change everything” thereby “resetting the cloud landscape”, they’re really paying over $34 billion for OpenShift. Which is a vanilla container runtime. That is open source. That IBM already had at least one of (as does everyone else in the industry, including the hyper-scale clouds). And one that isn’t a dominant brand or implementation. IBM could have bought both Docker and Pivotal at a nice premium for a quarter the price of Red Hat and gotten better assets if that is the strategy.

So I guess the question is... why didn't they?

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by pm90 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:59PM (#20475407)

Because they tried and failed.

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by djsumdog on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:47AM (#20476641)

They attempted to buy Mobi/Docker? That's pretty sad if your company says, "We've not going to take this buyout, because we'd rather our platform survive than take your money and watch you kill it."

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by ageek123 on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:53AM (#20476674)

I think the parent comment warrants a <citation needed>

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by parasubvert on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:27AM (#20478427)

I refer you to the song “No one else was in the room where it happened” on the Hamilton Soundtrack. Not everything can be cited.

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by simonebrunozzi on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:09PM (#20482450)

But then, maybe there was no room. There's no way to believe a random HN comment on such an important issue just on face value.

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by fatherlinnux on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:49PM (#20508672)

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Re:A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud by o-__-o on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#20487254)

Open shift is not vanilla

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