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IBM owns Red Hat, you ever heard of those guys?

IBM largely makes their money supporting legacy software, doing services and consulting work, and through Red Hat's software offerings



And selling hardware. Software aside, both POWER and s390x have a niche and are legitimately competitive in terms of performance (although cost is another matter).


IBM is about 25 times bigger than Red Hat.


Because they're raking in huge bucks supporting legacy software and doing services/consulting work. They also turn Red Hat products into IBM revenue through bundling/repackaging it




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