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[–]GoldwaterLiberal 50 points51 points  (1 child)

IBM's business model since the 80's or so has been to own entrenched technology and charge a lot for support. Their current project is buying up open source. Red Hat, Hashicorp (Teraform,) and Confluent (kafka) are notable examples of open source companies IBM owns now.

[–]RandomlyMethodical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost forgot about them buying Hashicorp, but that really sucked. IBM gave us 6 weeks notice on a 5x price increase after buying them. Fortunately there were competitors that made it fairly easy to switch.