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Goodbye CentOS : Red Hat’s way of neutralizing competition

CentOS, a free version of RHEL is not going to be available anymore for future versions. Red Hat has effectively neutralized the competition.

Managing enterprise software subscriptions – Need for procurement management

EKS Anywhere, but where is Kubernetes?

This announcement highlights growth of multi-cloud as a platform play in coming days.
This announcement also underscores the importance of Kubernetes as a platform.
AWS is challenging not only Google’s Anthos , but it is squarely challenging IBM- Red Hat’s Openshift, Mirantis and other Kubernetes solution providers.
Lastly, this announcement also highlights the attempts by big tech companies to create lock-in one way or the other.

Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! Why?

Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! That is a whopping amount of money for a company who was making just $450 million in revenue. Compare this with another mega deal that we saw last year where IBM paid $34Billion to acquire Red Hat. But the difference is Red Hat was making $3.5Billion in revenue.Continue reading “Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! Why?”