From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <10cqnqi$c7a8$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Arne Vajhøj   wrote:   
   >On 10/15/2025 8:51 PM, Dan Cross wrote:   
   >> 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   
   >   
   >If someone has a strong desire to do cloud like they did 10   
   >years ago, then buying GCE instances, installing RHEL,   
   >installing OpenShift, installing database, installing   
   >application and manage everything is certainly still an option.   
   >   
   >But I was very explicit above talking about managed services.   
   >Managed Kubernetes and managed database. GKE not GCE.   
      
   Have you ever used any GCP services?   
      
   >Again I wonder if you read what you are replying to.   
      
   Did you?   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
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