[dba-Tech] Open Source being bought up

[Jim Lawrence]

You have hit on the major problem with desktop machines. 

When a company has to really crunch numbers, perform mission critical computing, has a huge store of data and run a full online sales campaign, there is only one way that can be done. Harness the Cloud.  

You are right, business is becoming terminal based. How can a business compete against a Cloud like AWS, where a process can be launched where there is 256GB of RAM and a 100 CPUs at the customers disposal. I have watched a process that had taken almost a day on a small businesses systems and then when everything was set up, using hourly rates, on a Cloud, the result took less than a ten minutes. That is the bottom line, not everyone has the power of a mainframe in their office...but you can connect to, use it for a few hours and spend around $15.00. How can anyone's servers compete?  

Example:

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
https://www.azure.cn/en-us/pricing/overview/

AWS just boggles my mind as it may take an hour just to figure out the pricing unless you do it all the time.

Jim

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From: "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:20:17 PM
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Yea, when it comes to IBM I don't see it as anything other than the desktop running as a dumb terminal - so just added capabilities via the net :-)

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2018 4:15 PM
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As long as all their customers run out and buy such monsters but just maybe that is what the HyperCloud technology is? Being able to run a full blown AI on your desktop via IBM's Cloud might be possible.

Jim

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Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:21:32 PM
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IBM does :-)

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2018 4:12 PM
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Hi John:

I think the new lexicon term is "HyperCloud", what ever that means. There is a problem with getting Quantum computing working correctly. It works well, in theory, but in practice it's too unpredictable...for now. The AI part is working but not everyone has a supercomputer.

Jim

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Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:15:56 PM
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It will all be fine. Quantum RedHat, who'd a gueesed?

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2018 8:13 PM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Open Source being bought up

There is a wave of Open Source companies being bought up. Open Suse or SUSE, the open source software company, was sold to a Swedish private equity firm for a modest 2.5 billion. It is interesting to note that Microsoft designed its Hyper-V server from open source code garnered from Suse. Microsoft recently acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion, one of the core development for all open source products...at least there is still GitLab. 

Now Redhat has been bought up by the highest bidder, IBM, for a respectable $34 billion. Other bidders reportedly were Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle. As objectionable as the thought of Redhat going under the IBM banner, the possibility of the other bidders mentioned above, placing the winning bid, leaves me relieved...under the circumstances. But where does this leave related distributions like Fedora and CentOS?

My fears are that the next big player, Canonical, the writer of Ubuntu and the core of dozens of various distributions like Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint etc etc is next...and then by association where does that leave Debian. 

There is of course, now, the obvious danger of being too successful. An open source, highly creative world, built on a system of sharing that has become so successful that it is now considered the global OS. Such a system can not flourish within a purely Capitalistic profit driven environment. 
 
Jim
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