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Mon Oct 29 09:20:10 EDT 2018 Slept from eleven to six-thirty without waking. High of forty-nine today and mostly cloudy. Work: - Think about IBM buying Red Hat Done. - VPN and firewall stuff Done. https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/9s5rqr/ibm_and_red_hat/ > I know that every company being acquired would get fed the "Things are going to stay exactly the same!" line. No doubt Oracle said it to Sun. > > But, when you're betting 1/4 of your market cap on an acquisition of a profitable company. You want to make damn sure it stays profitable. Red Hat's largest asset is it's culture. You can use every single product for free, and if they ruin the culture, there will be a whole bunch of ex-Red Hatter's keen to get out there and start businesses supporting OpenStack, OpenShift, Foreman, CentOS (Yes, I know Fedora is the upstream for RHEL. But who uses it in Prod), etc. So I kind of believe the message that Red Hat will remain independent to a large degree. IBM benefits from the additional access to our resources and capability. They benefit from the innovation and the passion that we as Red Hatters have. There is no benefit for them to come in here and give us all blue ties to wear. > > It's all about making money, and the only way they make money from this is if they let Red Hat do Red Hat and build them the damn Cloud that they want and need. Framing it in terms of the sale price versus IBM's market cap is sobering, but that's also trusting that IBM has the good sense to not want to fuck it up. IBM may have a very different perspective on where the value resides at Red Hat. IBM's thinking may have been a shallow as "we need a cloud, who can we buy?!" Twenty-minute walk at lunch. A beautiful day with fall colors and blue sky. Heard a crow and a couple blue jays. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20181029144519 > The OpenBSD FAQ has a new Virtualization section https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html vmm is shaping up nicely. https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/9sduyp/introducing_the_openbsd_virtualization_faq/ > I only see OpenBSD and Linux listed as supported, but is that because there is no way to install Windows without VGA? > switch(4) it's intended to replace bridge(4) on the future https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/ > Will IBM allow Red Hat to mostly operate independently … or will IBM do to them what they’ve done to so many other acquisitions and suck the life out of otherwise good companies? Will IBM continue to allow Red Hat to do its development work? Will Red Hat’s support team(s) be laid off and the work sent to IBM call centers in India? Will IBM start increasing prices to help its earnings statements? Or will IBM contribute big parts of its software portfolio for Red Hat to make open, improve, promote, etc? IBM really doesn’t know how to manage and promote its good stuff. This could be a big improvement for IBM. If they don’t kill Red Hat first. > What happens to Red Hat management, for example? There are those who think Red Hat will, in many ways, become the surviving corporate culture here — that is if Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst gets Ginni Rometty’s IBM CEO job as part of the deal. That’s what I am predicting will happen. Ginni is overdue for retirement, this acquisition will not only qualify her for a huge retirement package, it will do so in a way that won’t be clearly successful or unsuccessful for years to come, so no clawbacks. And yet the market will (eventually) love it, IBM shares will soar, and Ginni will depart looking like a genius. Home: Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 0/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Breakfast: orange, carrots, two eggs with tomato, coffee, cupcake Lunch: coffee, peanut butter toast, carrots, apple, green tea Dinner: pizza 151/81

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