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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)
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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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[–] BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IBM will still sell you a brand new, updated mainframe in 2023.

They’re also in the open source software space (IBM owns Red Hat, a software company that has a lot of projects for Linux. Red Hat has their own Linux distro too)

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which threats users to had their subscription cancelled when they share the source code according to GPL.

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I agree with ya there, Red Hat screwed over Alma and Rocky with that decision. I can see the utility of those two distros for testing before committing to RHEL.

Plus, if Oracle has room to try to be the “good guys”, you’ve really screwed up

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody was “testing” rhel by using Rocky or Alma, they just didn’t want to pay for it. I mean you can test actual rhel for free!

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. Deploy Rocky or Alma in mass. Have RHEL for a few machines. When you got a problem, reproduce it in RHEL and call support.

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds pretty exploitative to me, and exactly the kind of use case that red hat wouldn’t want to support.

Think about what “bug for bug compatibility” actually means, they’re promising not to make any fixes or contribute to the build in any way!

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. It was told by my professor. He said "industry norm".

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

We did away with that pesky business failures. Now all corporate are eternal.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I knew they were a thing because I run into them in IT from time to time... but had no idea they owned the weather channel. Wild.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I work with their iseries servers daily, they are very much still a thing