The acquisition of Red Hat by IBM is closed, which has been closed for 34 billion dollars and will not involve changes in its operation.
One of the most important companies in the history of computing and hardware is IBM. The company, despite not focusing on the gaming and home market, is one of the largest in the world. To remain one of the most important companies in the industry purchased Red Hat. The purchase by IBM has been closed at 34 billion dollars.
Red Hat is a distribution of Linux-based operating system developed for companies and servers. It forms an entire ecosystem of functions and tools that is very prominent and highly valued within the industry. It basically offers solutions for storage, operating systems, applications, support services and management products.
IBM acquires Red Hat for $ 34 billion
The aim of this acquisition is to enhance the catalog of cloud services that IBM currently offers. In addition, we want to expand the benefits that open source can offer us.
The first rumors occurred about three months ago and now it has become official. From IBM they assure that Red Hay will maintain independence and neutrality. Red Hay CEO Jim Whitehurst has ensured that workers will remain in the same offices. But at the same time the company ensures that it will increase its investment to strengthen agreements with existing clients.
It will seek to combine the tools and hardware of the two companies to improve the benefits for their clients. The changes will exist, but they will be minimal and both companies emphasize that they will be beneficial. Work with clients will be enhanced to offer them a great combination of software and hardware.
To avoid problems, even though the acquisition is already in place, it will be a transition that will take several weeks. Without a doubt, this is great news, because IBM is a very respectful company and it has a very good way of working.
