Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

On 10/30/18 12:47 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:

On 30/10/2018 16:40, mark wrote:

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Linux was IBM's silver bullet on a free platter. I mean, *how* many operatings systems do you want to support...?

Yup, it must cost them a pretty penny to maintain all those proprietary operating systems (especially when you include their mainframe ones). I suspect that Linux

I would add "and FreeBSD" here. Mentioning only one of BSD descendants, the one with largest userbase.

Valeri

will eventually replace i and AIX -- eventually. But I bet there are some significant clients who are still willing to pay money to keep them going.