
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technological food chain, with a succession that includes “open source is eating software”, “cloud is eating open source,” and the most recent supposition that “multi-cloud…
HCL Technologies to Acquire Red Hat Software Products from IBM for $340 Million ARMONK, N.Y. and NOIDA, India, August 2, 2022 — IBM and HCL Technologies (HCL) today announced a definitive agreement under which HCL will acquire select IBM Red Hat software products for $340 million. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2023, subject…

The 2019 geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant: Previous geographic locales Seattle, Lesser Seattle, and Nichelandia remain unchanged. A new locale, Next Generation Hybrid Cloud Multicloud Fantasy Island, has been added to reflect IBM’s cloud strategy de jour. Previous installments: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015