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Today's Topics:

1. CentOS, Red Hat, and IBM (Rich Bowen)

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 10:47:33 -0400 From: Rich Bowen rbowen@redhat.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org, "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org, centos-announce@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS, Red Hat, and IBM Message-ID: a42e4032-26f5-85f5-506b-27c60f9dbdbf@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

CentOS community,

Today marks a new day in the 26-year history of Red Hat. IBM has finalized its acquisition of Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisiti...) which will operate as a distinct unit within IBM moving forward.

What does this mean for Red Hat?s contributions to the CentOS project?

In short, nothing.

Red Hat always has and will continue to be a champion for open source and projects like CentOS. IBM is committed to Red Hat?s independence and role in open source software communities so that we can continue this work without interruption or changes.

Our mission, governance, and objectives remain the same. We will continue to execute the existing project roadmap. Red Hat associates will continue to contribute to the upstream in the same ways they have been. And, as always, we will continue to help upstream projects be successful and contribute to welcoming new members and maintaining the project.

We will do this together, with the community, as we always have.

If you have questions or would like to learn more about today?s news, I encourage you to review the list of materials below. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright will host an online Q&A session in the coming days where you can ask questions you may have about what the acquisition means for Red Hat and our involvement in open source communities. Details will be announced on the Red Hat blog - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog

Press release - https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisiti...

Chris Wright blog - Red Hat and IBM: Accelerating the adoption of open source - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-ibm-accelerating-adoption-open-so...

FAQ on Red Hat Community Blog - https://community.redhat.com/blog/2019/07/faq-for-communities/