Performance monitoring tools for enterprises can be very lucrative. Surely they’ll move to an “open core”, closed source commercial license for the useful bits, if they haven’t already.
That isn't Redhat's model. They open the code (it's mostly 3rd party OSS anyway), including packages (hence, CentOS) and sell access to the updates system and support contracts.
Well... it hasn't been so far. But this isn't the old Red Hat anymore. This is IBM Hat. And for all the talk about keeping Red Hat mostly independent or whatever, I think we all know that's bullshit. Acquiring companies always give that little dog and pony show, and it never holds up in the long-term. There's no way that IBM culture won't wind up infecting Red Hat. Now whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a question I'll leave to the philosophers. But I'd be very leery of assuming anything regarding what RH will or won't do going forward.
Every single thread someone has to bring it up. The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM.
There is more than enough people who have their own minds. That is the RH culture, if this freedom is touched they will just quit.
IBM won’t affect RH in any way, Jim is not an idiot because he knows this would destroy RH and IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase.
The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM.
I am not saying that "every decision is mysteriously pushed by IBM." I'm saying that IBM culture will - over the long run - infect Red Hat. To pretend otherwise is, IMO, pretty naive. Over the decades, company after company after company has been acquired, and nearly every time the acquiring company makes the same promises about maintaining autonomy for the acquired company. And sometimes it holds up for a few months, or even a few years. But every single time, at least that I can recall, in the long run the acquired company eventually gets totally absorbed by the parent and starts to take on their characteristics. I haven't heard any cogent argument yet to justify believing that this time will be different.
IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase.
Like the way IBM managed to avoid destroying Lotus, Informix, Tivoli, Rational, Sequent, Truven, Explorys, Phytel, etc.?
There's a couple of areas that's not actually true. For example their "insights" package which has rule based detection of problems to fix etc is open source but the actual ruleset is not.
