{"id":28902,"date":"2018-10-29T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:02:27","slug":"ibm-to-acquire-red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/29\/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM To Acquire Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are some huge news to wake up to on this Monday Morning:\u00a0IBM To Acquire Red Hat, Completely Changing The Cloud Landscape And Becoming World’s #1 Hybrid Cloud Provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot to process in the morning.\u00a0 But if Red Hat was to be acquired by someone, I think IBM is one of the better choices.\u00a0 The deal size is $34 billion … and people are still saying that there is no way to make money with Open Source Software.<\/p>\n

Here’s the story at Slashdot<\/a>, which will get quite a few flame wars as the day progresses.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here are some huge news to wake up to on this Monday Morning:\u00a0IBM To Acquire Red Hat, Completely Changing The Cloud Landscape And Becoming World’s #1 Hybrid Cloud Provider. That’s a lot to process in the morning.\u00a0 But if Red Hat was to be acquired by someone, I think IBM is one of the better … Continue reading IBM To Acquire Red Hat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"IBM To Acquire Red Hat #RedHat #IBM #business #linux #cloud #OpenSource","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62,1334],"tags":[1210,1968,2366,1076,2912,2293,1330,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-acquisitions","tag-business","tag-cloud-computing","tag-ibm","tag-open-source","tag-red-hat","tag-web-development","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28354,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/31\/red-hat-to-acquire-coreos\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":0},"title":"Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Red Hat issued a press release announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS Inc. RALEIGH, N.C.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0January 30, 2018\u00a0\u2014 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc., an innovator\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2002\/04\/26\/red-hat-kickstart-and-distribution-hacking\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":1},"title":"Red Hat, kickstart, and distribution hacking","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 26, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"Kickstart day. Few more machines are off from Compaq to IBM. Meanwhile, I managed to get an interesting problem with kickstart - it panics the kernel with \"init not found\" if I boot from the floppy to do CD-ROM installation. Needs more investigation, but for now I choose to boot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8829,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/14\/ibm-presentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":2},"title":"IBM presentation","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 14, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I just came back from a two hour presentation by IBM that they gave in our office. They were mostly talking about their OpenPower servers, TotalStorage storage and backup solutions, and, of course, about their BladeCenter. Overall, the presentation was slightly boring and a bit too long. I learned little\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2002\/04\/03\/migrations-and-monitorings\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":3},"title":"Migrations and monitorings","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 3, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"Still doing the \"I like to move it, move it\" thing with Compaq and IBM servers. Things are shaping up a little. Intalled two Red Hat 7.2 machines to be used for IVR applications. Started working on netsaint2mrtg config converter, ended up upgrading Netsaint to 0.0.7.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36993,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/04\/on-the-future-of-docker-containers-and-serverless\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":4},"title":"On the future of Docker, containers, and serverless","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this blog post - \"Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish\" - which talks about the not-so-eminent, but very predictable death of Docker as both the technology, and the company. The gist of it is that container orchestration kicked in, and made Docker very replaceable with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-Has-Come-Of-Age.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-Has-Come-Of-Age.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-Has-Come-Of-Age.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-Has-Come-Of-Age.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-Has-Come-Of-Age.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26011,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/12\/red-hat-satellite\/","url_meta":{"origin":28902,"position":5},"title":"Red Hat Satellite","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's something I didn't know about - Red Hat Satellite. \u00a0From the FAQ page: Red Hat\u00ae Satellite is a system management solution that makes Red Hat infrastructure easier to deploy, scale, and manage across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Red Hat Satellite enables users to provision, configure, and update systems\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyring_services?post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}