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IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired.

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• Armed with Red Hat, IBM launches a cloud war against Amazon, Microsoft and Google | ZDNet
• Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition
• IBM Acquires Red Hat — What This Means for Open Source
• Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat from Ubuntu
• Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat
• Big Blue’s takeover of Red Hat could produce an über-cloud
• Blockbuster IBM-Red Hat Deal Draws Support – and Concerns for the ‘Spirit of Linux’

“I like the ones where you prepare.” (Coté ed.)

• Look, Red Hat and IBM are Pivotal competitors, good ones: we wish them success in this complex integration, it’s good they’re finally trying to fix their cloud portfolio, we’re hiring, etc., etc.. Let’s take it for mature-granted that we’d prefer enterprises be