> Red Hat makes more money because they’re an enterprise software
That was my immediate thought on reading the GP. HAving been in a few Red Hat meetings to discuss possibly using some software of theirs recently, the meetings were indistinguishable from how a meeting with VMware or Veeam goes. They are a company providing enterprise solutions.
That's not meant negatively, that's just what they are, and if you're in the market for an enterprise solution then you appreciate that these companies exist. You get assurances that what you get works as advertised or the provider spends time and effort making it work as they advertised, and you aren't spending your (limited) engineer talent to do so when it can be spent on areas that aren't easily served by throwing some money at it or the cost benefit ratio is far more in your favor.
> OpenShift trying to take on vSphere, Ceph evolving into an enterprise storage player, etc. These aren’t simple moves.
Except it isn't. One of those meetings I had? It was for Red Hat to tell me that they don't really have a good competitor to vSphere anymore, since the RHV platform is being EOL'd and they're getting out of that game. Sure, you can run a VM in OpenShift now, as long as that VM lives in a container and is part of a k8s cluster. The path to success for virtualization with Red Hat is Kubernetes or bust, I guess.
> Sure, you can run a VM in OpenShift now, as long as that VM lives in a container and is part of a k8s cluster. The path to success for virtualization with Red Hat is Kubernetes or bust, I guess.
Yes, that's the plan as far as I can tell. The demand for "vSphere but cheaper" is omnipresent. OpenStack and RHV failed, but OpenShift (and ACM) represents a new opportunity and foundation to take a run at vSphere. It will be hard - folks usually vastly underestimate how much smart engineering has gone into that layer.
That was my immediate thought on reading the GP. HAving been in a few Red Hat meetings to discuss possibly using some software of theirs recently, the meetings were indistinguishable from how a meeting with VMware or Veeam goes. They are a company providing enterprise solutions.
That's not meant negatively, that's just what they are, and if you're in the market for an enterprise solution then you appreciate that these companies exist. You get assurances that what you get works as advertised or the provider spends time and effort making it work as they advertised, and you aren't spending your (limited) engineer talent to do so when it can be spent on areas that aren't easily served by throwing some money at it or the cost benefit ratio is far more in your favor.
> OpenShift trying to take on vSphere, Ceph evolving into an enterprise storage player, etc. These aren’t simple moves.
Except it isn't. One of those meetings I had? It was for Red Hat to tell me that they don't really have a good competitor to vSphere anymore, since the RHV platform is being EOL'd and they're getting out of that game. Sure, you can run a VM in OpenShift now, as long as that VM lives in a container and is part of a k8s cluster. The path to success for virtualization with Red Hat is Kubernetes or bust, I guess.