IBM acquires Red Hat
So, I have mixed feelings.<p>I don&#x27;t think in the short term this will be a problem. However IBM has lost it&#x27;s way. its a very large unwieldy organisation that doesn&#x27;t change very fast.<p>It also has an awful lot of lifers, who would flounder horribly outside the soft warm IBM shell.<p>But, there are some brilliant engineers and technologies that are inside IBM. The ones I know are about are to do with GPFS, which is a shining beacon compared to ceph and gluster.<p>A clever organisation _could_ mix GPFS, the vast experience with scheduling and resource allocation, and second to none documentation (have you read a Red book? they are marvels of readability.) to make a spectacular platform. One that unlike K8s would be easy to use, understand, tune, script for and run.<p>They won&#x27;t be able to execute it properly, but they have the potential.