Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM October 27, 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/f...-acquisition-may-be-the-thing-that-saves-ibm/
Whoa. One of the most important companies for Gnu/Linux ecosystem is getting acquired by IBM. On the one hand open-source is being acquired by a few giant corporations. On the other hand maybe this is what they need to compete with Microsoft, Google and Amazon in the cloud area.
Dow Jones Futures: IBM Red Hat Deal Targets Cloud Giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google October 29 7:29 AM ET https://www.investors.com/market-tr...deal-cloud-computing-amazon-microsoft-google/
I'm having an optimistic moment about this. If done right this could carve out a nice slice of the consumer market. All that goes with that I see at least 3 musts. One, these are big, one seamless integration or a reasonable licensing agreement for MS Office in all it's capabilities. Two, equal or greater performance of all popular games than in Windows. And three substantial distribution of desktops & laptops with Redhat preinstalled. I believe IBM is capable of this.
