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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by esseph on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:36AM (#47614304)
Red Hat OpenShift (IBM) is what a lot of banks have settled on. Red Hat went all in maybe 5+ years ago in capturing those institutions.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by VorpalWay on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:55AM (#47615344)
Ah, that explains why IBM bought RedHat. Or at least one reason for doing so.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by esseph on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:05PM (#47617104)
I'd imagine close to 95% in the US, if they're running important workloads on prem on Linux, it's on RHEL. A staggering number of VMs and bare metal.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by esseph on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:57PM (#47621269)
(Clarification: I'm not saying 95% of all US company Linux workloads are RHEL, not even close.

I'm saying a huge percentage of high criticality (risk of loss of life / high financial risk) are, simply because of support and the name.)

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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by nineteen999 on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:12AM (#47624628)
Exactly. The exact opposite of the people flogging internet widgets running on a bunch of AWS instances running Arch/Ubuntu/Cheap distro of the week. Unfortunately that contingent is massively over-represented here on HN.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by Bigpet on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:34AM (#47615083)
Is that in addition to mainframes or for completely replacing them?
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by zhengyi13 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:07PM (#47616322)
Probably both, to respond to the risk tolerances of any given org.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by esseph on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:03PM (#47617066)
Both

Some stayed at on prem, some pushed code to mainframe VMs in the cloud, some went to OpenShift (mostly on prem from what Ive seen, probably 80-85%).

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