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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by blcknight on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:44AM (#35339157)
Still is. I’ve been at RH a long time.

IBM hasn’t touched us and they are not doing what Oracle did to Sun. Not yet anyway, but Jim made a bunch of promises to us when we were acquired and they’ve kept them all.

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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by op00to on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:17AM (#35339602)
This has not been my experience AT ALL. Also, no one has mentioned Jim in years. Where is he anyway? Chewed up an spat out by the IBM machine.
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by quickthrower2 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:00AM (#35339372)
Why would IBM acquire and not touch it? They must have had a reason to acquire?
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by bonzini on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:13AM (#35339547)
Red Hat is now worth 10% of IBM's revenue, and growing.

They had 3.4 billion reasons to acquire when they acquired it in 2018, and they had roughly 6 billion reasons not to touch it last year.

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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by op00to on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:18AM (#35339609)
IBM "touches" Red Hat on a constant basis, needling and throwing its weight around to make way for blue ribbon 7 figure deals that never materialize.
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by CameronNemo on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:51AM (#35341073)
Big list of companies to upsell to.
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by pjmlp on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:57PM (#35344172)
Oracle rescued what they cared from Sun, everyone else including IBM, couldn't care less.
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