Comments on: Big Blue Dons A $34 Billion Red Hat https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/28/big-blue-dons-a-34-billion-red-hat/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/28/big-blue-dons-a-34-billion-red-hat/#comment-112571 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:02:36 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38623#comment-112571 In reply to Fred Yonley.

I believe so, that’s how it works. But Red Hat shareholders have approved the deal and no second deal has emerged as yet. It looks like it is up to the regulators now.

]]> By: Fred Yonley https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/28/big-blue-dons-a-34-billion-red-hat/#comment-112566 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:28 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38623#comment-112566 If some company makes a better offer for Redhat, does Redhat still have to pay the million dollar fee for changing from the IBM deal? A million sounds like a lot to most; but if they get a billion more, the million penalty sounds like small potatoes.

]]> By: Ira J Minor https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/28/big-blue-dons-a-34-billion-red-hat/#comment-107472 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 17:17:52 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38623#comment-107472 IBM can offer a very strong package to corporations today, including its Power9 systems, Red Hat Software and various services. In the near future computers will be radically re-architected to give much higher performance. This will require major changes to Red Hat software. The new software will be open source but will only run on IBM’s new hardware. It will be so good that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook etc will all buy it from IBM,

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