 So in a bit of interesting news Red Hat may be turning a little bit blue So IBM just bought them and it's breaking news. It's interesting and a few people messaged to me right away And me and my Linux friends right away started talking and of course But I started thinking about you know, why did IBM do this? And so I really wanted to just touch on it real quick here. There's the official release Press release from Red Hat IBM to acquire Red Hat completely changing the cloud landscape and coming to worlds number one hybrid cloud provider That's interesting and scary at the same time because I'm not a big fan of when you see all this market consolidation You know the recent acquisition of Microsoft buying github IBM now purchasing Red Hat There's a lot of this going on and IBM's interesting company because they've kind of moved away from Their hardware services that they are traditionally known for the big blue and the big blue servers That was their bread-and-butter history into an intellectual property company that basically Cranks out licenses so you can lease intellectual property matter of fact That's the majority of their income is not hardware sales anymore. They spun off years ago They're Lenovo, which was their laptop divisions. They were really well known for and they did have a good reputable hardware Offering but they've just spun it all and moved into intellectual property Licensing kind of against the open-source model, but before we go too far IBM has always been a consistently long supporter of Linux especially the kernel they've been a longtime kernel developer and Red Hat is an interesting acquisition. So Red Hat's not an acquisition that just says hey I'm gonna buy Red Hat and now I have the Red Hat OS and more control and influence over it Red Hat's a really large stack of highly popular middleware tools from OpenStack JBoss the recent acquisition of core OS So there's a lot of middleware tooling that is used at Red Hat Well designed by Red Hat supported by Red Hat So their long list of middleware tools makes them kind of an interesting acquisition now These are all open source you can't close things So for those of you running around like things are on fire is this is always the techno fear that comes in here Once we start looking at what they do the reality is the value of Red Hat is the amazing team They've assembled that contribute to software that is open-source the licenses can't change if this tries to be changed by IBM it will get forked now the question is will IBM start producing lower quality code Will they try to replace the workers with lower quality lesser paid workers? That is unfortunately something that IBM based on a lot of what I've dug in and done some reading has done in the past And there's plenty of discussions going on everywhere from the red at Lenox community and everywhere So it's it's a pretty heated debate and it's all very speculative I find the acquisition interesting and I think it's a thing that IBM is trying to stay more relevant So one of the things that big blue is well known for is like Watson right now and a few other things But they don't have that a cloud system like AWS or Azure. They do have a cloud offering I've been seeing it advertised a lot because I do use Azure. I do use AWS So it's kind of funny seeing all these ads pop up a try IBM cloud try IBM this and I've actually had an IBM engineer reach out to me Wanting me to look at one of their tools sets that they have But it was a mess and it was it wasn't a SEM for managing data and watching security workflows The name of the software moves me at the moment, but it's yeah I haven't really used any of the tools lately and that was another one that was just kind of messy It only ran and red had had special install scripts I want to do a video on it I spent two hours trying to get the install script to work properly and then I kind of gave up on it So IBM hasn't exactly had a lot of popular tools in the open-source community Although they are an open-source contributor specifically to the kernel and some of the other smaller projects I know they also have some Java projects they are been pushing out there. So it's a very interesting acquisition It's just like the Microsoft get have one if they leave it alone if they leave red hat to be red hat and Maybe they bought it because they want to help offer I mean integrate into their cloud cool And it may give red hat a boost because they do have a lot of knowledge over there at IBM and Connecting red hat employees to that knowledge base. Maybe there's some advantages. I'm gonna do you know my usual Cautious optimism. I try to be optimistic on all these things and so far for example so far You know github is still github Microsoft realizes Github being github is an important aspect the difference between this and like the github acquisition is red hat It's a publicly traded a very profitable company. So we know their numbers We know they're making money so it becomes very interesting why they want to buy them or why red hat would want to sell to them But we'll see how this plays out. It's gonna be an interesting It's certainly a big change in the Linux market and this does worry me like I said with all the consolidation going on and In kind of directly related to that is I've commented before on my Sunday morning Linux review podcast that These type of acquisitions also get scary because what if these companies start tooling their Systems and optimizing them for only a single cloud platform And that's of course with these cloud companies We love you to do because if it was optimized for the IBM cloud Well, that would make it harder to move it to another competing cloud So you become kind of vendor locked in because they love vendor lock-in versus some of these open source Toolings have really made it easy for you to move cloud providers to whichever one is the most cost-effective or has a better idea And a better way to implement things that may fit your business model better so not locked in much better because then it Remains a competitive landscape for you to choose which cloud prefer you want. So like I said, I'll be watching this I'll be following through and posting on reddit and Reading through all these ideas and probably debating and maybe participating occasionally in some of the techno panic because you know Whatever there's this big thing happening like this. It's it's always interesting to watch it all play out Thanks as always to leave links below and share your thoughts