On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:53:16PM -0700, stan wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:32:37 +0000
Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora is the "bleeding edge" development arm of RHEL. Eventually,
once enough changes have been made and stabilized in Fedora, it
becomes the next release of RHEL. We Fedora users are just the lab
rats and a giant, very vocal and fairly sophisticated bunch of beta
testers. CentOS is built off the RHEL source tree. It's rebranded,
but it is essentially RHEL (but free and without direct RedHat
support to users).
And this is the reason I think Fedora will continue relatively
unscathed. Replacing the services that the users of Fedora provide to
Red Hat's product with paid employees would be more costly than the
support Red Hat gives Fedora, and less effective in finding issues.
Additionally:
"Upon closing of the acquisition, Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud
team as a distinct unit, preserving the independence and neutrality of
Red Hat’s open source development heritage and commitment, current
product portfolio and go-to-market strategy, and unique development
culture."
See: "preserving" - Not too many details, but sounds encouraging ...
The merger is expected to be completed only second half 2019:
"The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of both
IBM and Red Hat. It is subject to Red Hat shareholder approval. It
also is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing
conditions. It is expected to close in the latter half of 2019."
All quotes from above:
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider
I'm getting curious as to the changes the whole thing will bring .. :)
Else: Game over - Linux has won, I think. At least for the next few
months ... ;)
Wolfgang
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