[Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Tue May 21 09:22:00 PDT 2019


> On 5/18/19 11:54 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
>> On 17/5/19 12:37 pm, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>
>>> That is my biggest fear for centos to be fair with the IBM RH
>>> acquisition.
>>
>> I think IBM at least seems to get open source, especially around
>> Linux. Now if it was Oracle who had bought them...
>>
>>
> I can't agree with this enough. The last time this topic came up, I
> pointed out that IBM deserves a LOT of credit for making Linux
> well-known amongst the general population. They invested heavily in
> Linux, and ran a whole advertising campaign about Linux. Sure, that was
> almost 20 years ago, but I am still inclined believe IBM get's Linux
> better than most other companies that target the enterprise market.
>
> Here's a few example IBM Linux commercials from that period:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00
>
> https://youtu.be/_Bu4hLxL_EM
>
> https://youtu.be/fJA9eiUktcA
>

And don't forget the smackdown they gave SCO when
they tried to lay claim to Linux

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Doug

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