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RHEL will be around for a long time because the government demands something like it. All the other businesses stacked around it are dubious prospects at best.

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While not untrue it would have been far more brilliant for a defense contractor to buy RHEL.

IBM is a defense contractor.

IBM is generally a subcontractor to a prime. They are rarely a prime. IBM doesn't compete in fed at the level Lockheed or Raytheon, for example, do.

With the move to cloud services, governments may gravitate towards CentOS (which is based on RHEL)...

CentOS is owned by Redhat

I'm quite aware of this.

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