The Downswing of Red Hat's Net Revenue Increases

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Red Hat's net revenue increases are on a downswing, like 12%, 10%, 8% to last three quarters. I still see Red Hat as being kind of alive inside of there, but it's not the same Red Hat that it was five, six years ago. When you buy a company for $34 billion and say, "You're going to be free," things happen internally that would not happen had IBM never owned Red Hat.

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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