From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <10cpeu9$26ht$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Arne Vajhøj   wrote:   
   >On 10/15/2025 8:26 PM, Dan Cross wrote:   
   >> In article <10cpc9g$191j$2@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Arne Vajhøj   wrote:   
   >>>     And one facet of GCP is that Google is taking   
   >>>     over OS support from Redhat/Canonical/SUSE when   
   >>>     companies moves their workload from on-prem to   
   >>>     GCP managed services. Linux support is their   
   >>>     business.   
   >>   
   >> Do you mean ContainerOS?  That's just a distro.   
   >   
   >I am talking about that like 10 years ago a company   
   >would run like:   
   >   
   >their application + their database server   
   >RHEL [paying Redhat for Linux support]   
   >ESXi   
   >on-prem HW   
   >   
   >but now they may run as (assuming Google customer):   
   >   
   >their application in GKE + database as GCP managed service   
   >whatever Linux Google want to use [paying Google for Linux support as   
   >part of what they pay for the cloud services]   
   >Linux with KVM   
   >Google HW   
      
   Not quite how the stack is structured.   
      
   >Amazon, Microsoft and Google are taking revenue away   
   >from Redhat (IBM). They have de facto gotten into   
   >the Linux support business.   
      
   Not really.  They're taking revenue away from Broadcom/VMWare,   
   perhaps, and probably from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.  But if you   
   want to run RHEL on a VM on Google's cloud, they won't stop you.   
   https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
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