Posted on 10/28/2018 4:02:03 PM PDT by Java4Jay
I can retrieve messages in Exchange via Outlook.
I almost worked for Red Hat...3 interviews...oh well.
Should be good for Nasdaq and Big Board tomorrow.
We’ll see what programmed sells Soros pulls tomorrow.
I'm the lead Platform Architect for a big global bank. Tomorrow morning when I arrive at the office the first thing I'm going to do is de-certify Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our preferred Linux platform and announce Ubuntu as our long-term strategic direction.
That's how much I cannot stand IBM.
The Free OS Red Hat gives out is just so you can test it for them for free
You said the software was free. I was merely pointing out that actually using it in a production environment is not free.
And I think the Red Hat purchase for $35,000,000,000 is idiocy.
I think it’s a sign of worse things to come.
I don’t have the time to try to do a deep dive, but it looks like RH may have about a couple of billion in debt that would be assumed. So IBM wouldn’t have to borrow that (smiley face).
Been awhile since I was on that. Good.
I think all of them should have that as a feature.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is what most big organizations run is NOT FREE. We have well over 20,000 RHEL Linux VM's and some 3,000 physical RHEL Servers in our environment. We pay MILLIONS for licensing and support, as does anyone a shop our size.
IBM has a history of wrecking technology products, their track record is as bad as Dell's.
Centos is the free unsupported variant
RedHat also owns a syndication platform Ansible
With all the politicization of Linux (too long to
explain it here) Red Hat may end up
being the leader
Red Hat sells professional engineering support for business servers. That makes that OS more attractive to businesses who don't want to bet the entire zillion-dollar enterprise on some suspender-wearing IT geek. (Guilty as charged, M'Lud). And by the way, it's worth every penny if you need it and I speak from experience.
Great Bridgestone Reply All Super Bowl commercial from 2011: https://youtu.be/aBIWNrKnIuI
I worked for an open source software company for a while. At first, it seems that giving the software away for free is a stupid business model. But it makes a huge amount of sense because here is lots of money to be made in support, training, and professional services work. About 30% of our company was developers writing the core software and new features every year. The money we made in support, training, and pro services paid for those developers as well as all the direct cost of providing that support, training and pro serv.
Open source software is supplemented by the entire community writing solutions and new features. All of it was contributed to the Apache Foundation and the process for getting new software accepted was very rigorous which assured good quality code.
With open source, you have continuity if one supplier goes belly up and disappears, too.
LOL he said something about some of our internal users - it was true but they weren’t going to like it. Oops
I saw the “reply all” when I got it and zoomed down the hall about 80 feet to his office.
Red Hat’s headquarters are in my neck of the woods, Raleigh, NC.
How true!
CentOS is the free distribution of Red Hat. No support, of course, but free.
(There could be minor configuration differences - I used to run into a few when installing RedHat-qualified software onto CentOS instead. Work-arounds were always available.)
My industry depends on Red Hat, and I want the owners of Red Hat's sole focus to be the future and well-being of Red Hat. So any new, distracted owner is bad, and IBM being the owner is even worse.
Sincerely,
Yossarian
former IBM-er (in paycheck, never in spirit)
How about, for servers or hardcore workstations, SuSE instead?
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