Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 21, 2023 16:52 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by MarcB
Parent article: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

> Apparently Red Hat believes that 3rd parties will stick with them as the only supported platform.

I know of at least one third party that, after the CentOS announcement, started focusing on Ubuntu LTS as the recommended platform, while before it was CentOS/RHEL.

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 21, 2023 18:16 UTC (Wed) by Vipketsh (guest, #134480) [Link] (2 responses)

Unfortunately it's not always so easy because often you are not the only vendor who's tools your customers are using. They can only use a distro which is supported by all the tools they use. For example, in the semiconductor industry *everyone* will be using tools from the Big 3 tool vendors who generally support RHEL 6,7, often 8 and rarely some version of SLES. Thus, if you are not the big 3 and you want to provide some tool to this industry you have to support the aforementioned distros and trying to support anything else is meaningless.

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 21, 2023 18:26 UTC (Wed) by gtirloni (subscriber, #85631) [Link] (1 responses)

Compared to all other RH customers, the semi industry must look tiny, doesn't it? Also, their RH Support costs would be a line error in their budget.

Recent moves by IBM and Red Hat hurt more small companies and individuals. You know, the ones that one day might grow to actually buy official support from Red Hat. They are shooting themselves in the foot but this is classical IBM thinking.

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 22, 2023 8:35 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

>Compared to all other RH customers, the semi industry must look tiny, doesn't it?

It’s the same in every industry. ISVs want to limit the number of platforms they have to support, they will happily support Red Hat (RHEL), Microsoft (Windows), Google (Android) as long as those do not gouge them too much, provide some benevolent dictatorship of the platform and someone paid you can call when things go wrong.

Consider that even the multiple abuses of Microsoft, could not convince the industry to invest in anything but Windows on the desktop. It did bare Microsoft access to dominance of the (new, not established yet) mobile and server market but no one was in any hurry to rock the desktop boat.