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[IT168 News] on October 29th, IBM and Red Hat (Red Hat) jointly announced that under the agreement reached between the two sides, IBM will buy Red Hat for $190 per share, a total value of about $34 billion. This means that the deal is the largest acquisition ever in the open source sector.

Founded 25 years ago, Red Hat initially focused on Linux and is now the world's leading provider of enterprise open source IT solutions, providing technical services such as cloud services, Linux, management software, middleware, mobile services, storage and virtualization. Before the deal, Red Hat had a market capitalization of about $20.5 billion.

After the acquisition, Red Hat will become part of IBM's hybrid cloud division, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (Jim Whitehurst) will join IBM's senior management team and report to CEO Ginni Rometty.

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Rometty, CEO of IBM, is more concerned about the value that IBM's acquisition of Red Hat will bring to cloud computing than Linux. "the acquisition of Red Hat will change the rules of the game, it will change everything in the cloud market," she said. IBM will become the world's number one hybrid cloud provider, providing companies with the only open cloud solution to help their businesses unleash the full value of the cloud. "

Rometty added: "Today, most companies are only 20% on the road to cloud computing, and they tend to reduce costs by renting computing power. The next 80% is to unleash real business value and drive growth, which is the next chapter of the cloud. It needs to move business applications to the hybrid cloud, extract more data, and optimize every part of the business-from supply chain to sales."

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (Jim Whitehurst) said: "Open source is the default choice of modern IT solutions. I am extremely proud of the role that Red Hat has played in achieving this goal in the enterprise. Working with IBM will provide us with larger scale, resources and capabilities, using open source as the basis to accelerate the impact on the digital transformation." And bring Red Hat to a wider audience-while maintaining our unique culture and strong commitment to open source innovation. "

In recent years, IBM has been trying to carry out its own business transformation, and cloud computing is one of its four strategic transformation business entities. With the acquisition of Red Hat, there is no doubt that IBM is a big expansion of its cloud computing business. So why did IBM choose Red Hat? Why do you attach so much importance to the acquisition of Red Hat? what can IBM's acquisition of Red Hat bring to customers? A blog post on the official website of IBM answered our questions. (the following is an excerpt from IBM's official website)

Q & A from Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President of Hybrid Cloud with IBM

Q: why Red Hat, why now?

A: it is important to understand where our customers are currently on their own journey to cloud computing. They are all running to the clouds. In fact, most of them are running multiple clouds. But their cloud computing journey is only about 20%, and they are eager to move business applications to the cloud, which is the next chapter in the cloud, the remaining 80%. However, in order to get full business value from cloud investments and move real business applications to the cloud, they need to be able to move and deploy applications and services between multiple cloud environments. Today, they are still hesitant to do so because the proprietary nature of the cloud market makes it very difficult, security issues in multi-cloud environments and inconsistent cloud management. Red Hat and IBM are both first-class hybrid cloud providers, and together we will help customers solve this problem, provide a path to the cloud for all business applications, and enable our customers to unleash the full value of the cloud.

Q: what technologies have IBM and Red Hat brought to address customer needs?

A: in the past few years, Linux has become the number one operating system for enterprise applications, both locally and in the cloud. In addition, container and Kubernetes technologies have become a common foundation for modernizing existing applications and writing cloud-native applications.

Together, IBM and Red Hat will bring these values to our customers, based on the progress IBM has made in its $19 billion hybrid cloud business.

Q: why is this important for IBM?

A: IBM has been investing in emerging high-value areas of the IT industry. As part of the high-value strategy, Red Hat represents the latest and largest strategy. They bring IBM the world's largest portfolio of open source technologies, an innovative hybrid cloud platform, and a huge community of open source developers. Together, we will become the world's leading hybrid cloud provider, which is a game changer for the cloud industry.

Q: how will IBM integrate the open source spirit of Red Hat into the company?

A: we are committed to maintaining the culture, leadership and practice of Red Hat. It's important to remember that IBM has been an advocate of the open source community since our $1 billion investment in Linux 20 years ago. Over the past 20 years, as the technology cycle has changed, the open source community has played an important development role, which has never been more obvious as enterprises move business applications to cloud computing. In this open source community, IBM and Red Hat have a long and successful partnership. Between us, IBM and Red Hat have contributed more to the open source community than any other organization. We share many common beliefs-starting with the fact that the IT world is and will continue to be mixed.

"since ancient times, red and blue out of CP," there is a "blue giant" known as IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, has undoubtedly earned enough attention. There is no doubt that cloud computing will continue to move forward in a hybrid trend, and how IBM takes this step ultimately depends on the integration of products, services and solutions.

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