> I think everyone and their dog is realizing that there isn't all that much money in the traditional OS business anymore
I wish my dog was as smart as yours, he continues to pay for windos and runs IE since no one on the internet knows he's a dog
Redhat invested quite a bit into openshift, IBM bought them (and mentioned Redhat's cloud strategy in the announcement as one of the major reasons).
Microsoft is doubling down on Azure, now SUSE wants a piece of the pie.
I'm not familiar enough with Rancher to tell you why those chose exactly them, but they had to do something.