IBM's Red Hat Purchase May Help Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth (Photo: Paixetprosperite on Flickr)

A couple of days ago, IBM's interest in trying to acquire Red Hat was announced, fact that happened a few days after those speculations.

After the acquisition, Red Hat will become an independent entity on the IBM hybrid cloud team.

This should serve to preserve the open source nature of Red Hat.

ERed Hat boss Jim Whitehurst will continue to lead the new unit, reporting directly to IBM CEO Ginni Rometty as a member of IBM's senior executives. The rest of Red Hat's leadership team will stay, IBM says.

Mark Shuttleworth sees the purchase of Red Hat favorably

Mark Shuttleworth made a post on the Ubuntu blog a couple of days ago, commenting on IBM's acquisition of Red Hat and that's good news for Ubuntu, according to what he says.

As mentioned at the beginning of the article last week, Red Hat was sold to IBM for the modest sum of 34 billion dollars, thus becoming the largest purchase made in the technology business world.

And the owner of Canonical sees the matter totally positive for his operating system.

In the post, Mark Shuttleworth congratulated Red Hat on the role it played before the implementation of Open Source as a highly viable alternative to UNIX, with a fundamental role in this movement.

He also completed that "the acquisition is a significant progression from open source to the main draw."

But it did not stop giving that hook in Red Hat, since they were competitors in the segments of IoT, Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenStack, with the following statements:

“In the last two years, many prominent Red Hat customers selected Ubuntu and contracted with Canonical to create more efficient open source infrastructure and solutions and for new and important initiatives.

Among them, we have the main banks, telecommunications companies, governments, universities, airlines, insurance companies, technology giants and media conglomerates. Several have spoken in public and increased confidence in their success in Ubuntu. «

Mark Shuttleworth Sees Growth Opportunity for Ubuntu

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It is also good to see that Canonical is attentive to market movements and positioning itself as a force in areas such as "Cloud Public", "OpenStack", Governments, Universities among others.

IBM's acquisition of Red Hat is a significant moment in the progression from open source to the mainstream.

We salute Red Hat for the role it played in the open source framework as a familiar and complete replacement for traditional UNIX in terms of 'Wintel'. In that sense, RHEL was a crucial step in the open source movement.

However, the world has moved on. Replacing UNIX is no longer enough. The decline in RHEL growth in contrast to the acceleration in Linux in general is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source.

Public cloud workloads have largely bypassed RHEL.

We can see that this move by IBM has awakened a certain positive sense in many people, it is not for nothing, but IBM has always responded very well with its acquisitions.

In addition, different sectors of free software see this as a great advance or a great opportunity for free software.

Mark Shuttleworth is a businessman and has taken the moment to make some moves for his company, presenting it as a solution for those who don't like IBM and are Red Hat customers.

This is totally logical because Ubuntu has been formed thanks to monopolizing that "market" in which many do not find a solution, say, Windows or in this RHEL.

Finally, if you want to know a little more about the post that Mark Shuttleworth wrote, you can visit the following link.


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