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• Big Blue morphes into huge cloud business by swapping CEO Rometty with cloud, Red Hat chiefs

  If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question has been resoundly answered.

• IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security

  IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyber attacks.

• Linux, containers, Kubernetes the standard for IT’s next era: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

  The combination of Linux, containers, and the open source Kubernetes orchestration platform effectively represent a new standard as enterprises’ digital transformation efforts enter “chapter two,” according to IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty.

• IBM brings blockchain to Red Hat OpenShift; adds ApacheDB for hybrid cloud customers

  IBM continued its Red Hat and open source software integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform.

• Open source has never been stronger

  With cloud companies open-sourcing their innovations, and enterprises increasing participation, open source sustainability is at an all-time high.

• IBM fuses software with Red Hat to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut

  IBM is starting a potentially huge run at hybrid cloud by tying more than 100 of its products to the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

• EU regulators to decide on IBM's Red Hat acquisition by June 27

  ​EU antitrust regulators will decide by June 27 whether to clear US tech giant IBM's US$34 billion bid for software company Red Hat.

• Everything Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst would say about the IBM deal

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses what he can regarding the IBM-Red Hat acquisition, which has just been approved by the US Department of Justice.

• Red Hat to be ‘Switzerland’ within IBM

  Red Hat will operate as a kind of “Switzerland” within IBM and maintain its commitment to open source at the conclusion of Big Blue’s takeover of the software company, according to Marco Bill-Peter, Red Hat senior vice president of customer experience and engagement.

• IBM to snap up Red Hat for US$34 billion

  IBM says it has agreed to acquire U.S. software company Red Hat Inc for US$34 billion, including debt, as it seeks to diversify its technology hardware and consulting business into higher-margin products and services.

• Open sass: Ubuntu/Red Hat drama erupts at Openstack

  Canonical founder and part-time hobby astronaut Mark Shuttleworth began his Openstack keynote last week by criticising Red Hat for being too expensive.

• ASX cuts costs with middleware rollout

  The ASX has migrated legacy mission-critical applications to Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

• What’s new in Fedora Linux 27

  The newest version of Red Hat’s user-orieted Linux distro improves modularity to ease updates, refreshes the software development tools, and ends alpha releases

• Oracle hits back at modular Java critics

  High-ranking Java official responds to Red Hat's comments, saying that changes need to be useful to all developers, not a select few

• Containers will be a $2.6B market by 2020, research firm says

  Application container technology has likely reached peak buzzword status but the actual market size is relatively modest now yet growing quickly. A rash of startups are competing with legacy vendors who are increasingly prioritizing the developer tool.