Comment by reacharavindh
7 years ago
Same here. I'm a HPC admin. We carefully avoid vendor lock-in because it gets too expensive too easily.
Performance is king, and we don't buy into the kind of sales bullshit that IBM is famous for.
Sadly, we just standardised on CentOS 7 for our new cluster and I am nervous about its future considering IBM involvement now.
The HPC community have forked cantos before(scientific Linux) and make up a big enough fraction of the centos volunteers to do so again.
A big part of the open source appeal is the the vendor who owns the trademark cannot unilaterally kill a product.