IBM Began Buying Red Hat 20 Years Ago | Linux Today

IBM Began Buying Red Hat 20 Years Ago

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Glyn Moody
Jan 7, 2019

Many interesting analyses have been and will be written about why IBM bought Red Hat, and what it means for open source, Red Hat, Ubuntu, cloud computing, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon, amongst other things. But one aspect of the deal people may have missed is that in an important sense, IBM actually began buying Red Hat 20 years ago.

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Glyn Moody

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