Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

  • @[email protected]
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    269 months ago

    They have a stranglehold on enterprise computing after they ate redhat, and they still make insane mainframes, they’ve just left the consumer world (which makes sense given their name i guess)

    • FartsWithAnAccent
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      119 months ago

      I wouldn’t go that far, there’s been a mass exodus from Redhat and they’re hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        9 months ago

        The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It’s mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying “omg I’ll never use RHEL now, even though I never have”, but in reality, they’ve not seen an exodus.

        I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

        • FartsWithAnAccent
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          109 months ago

          Maybe, but our data center people decided to switched to SUSE so some places definitely ditched RHEL.

          • @elshandra
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            39 months ago

            How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we’ve slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

      • @theherk
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        69 months ago

        Cries in COBOL.

          • @T156
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            59 months ago

            That’s what the C in COBOL stands for.

            Cry-inducing Old Business-Oriented Language.