Red Hat still glowing, but Big Blue's been bruised by investors
    • Alphane MoonOPEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      They’ve actually been doing relatively well. Not a rapidly growing market, but solid growth of a core base tied to wider growth in the economy.

      There are certain use cases where it’s borderline impossible to move to a completely new system and it’s simply safer to get the next IBM mainframe update that easily plugs into your system and you get high class support for any and all issues.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•4 months ago

        I had no idea. That’s interesting. Is it growing as a portion of the overall market, or is it just a set of existing legacy systems that need more and more storage/power?

        • Alphane MoonOPEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          a set of existing legacy systems that need more and more storage/power?

          This. Systems that they don’t want to risk fucking up with a failed full re-write and it’s easier to keep buying the latest mainframe release (from my understanding backward compatibility in mainframe system is extremely sophisticated).

  • @[email protected]English
    1•4 months ago

    Huh. Redhat has to make up the difference.

    But CAN it ignore that it used to make a good OS 10 years ago and instead hard-sell enough shitty add-on apps and other worthless spooge? Let’s watch.