Comment by ianai
7 years ago
Where’s the history of IBM buying and sun setting companies? I don’t have the same prejudice towards IBM that I do for Oracle. But I’m not in a position to know.
I’m thinking RHEL’s support contracts will keep IBM from shuttering RHEL. An IBM branded RHEL would represent plenty of income.
Rational Rose, Lotus
Can you expand?
They can cancel many projects that RedHat do as a general giving back to Linux. IBM wouldn't care.
Sequent, though I can't see them doing the same things to RH.
ISS?
SPSS comes to mind.
Can you expand?
WeatherUnderground was effectively shut down post-purchase. API signup is gone, etc. Terrible transition and no support for prior products.
This is 0% true...
This is 100% true. They abandoned so many good parts of WU and, today, it seems to continue to operate as data collection (mobile apps / home weather stations) and ad revenue generation.
Weather underground is a shell of what it used to be. They got rid of a ton of features and cluttered everything with ads