Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster

Julie188 writes "One of the more interesting aspects of Red Hat's acquisition of virtual storage vendor Gluster on Tuesday is how it drags Red Hat into bed with its cloud competitor OpenStack. Red Hat made waves over the summer in the open source community when one of its executives threw punches at OpenStack's community, saying the community amounted to not much more than a bunch of press releases. In July, Gluster contributed its Connector for OpenStack. It enables features such as live migration of VMs, instant boot of VMs, and movement of VMs between clouds on a GlusterFS environment. While Fedora has already said that its upcoming Fedora 16 would support OpenStack, Fedora is a community distro and not beholden to Red Hat. However, Red Hat today promised that it would continue to support and maintain Gluster's contribution to OpenStack. It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk."

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I recently decided to stop posting comments and articles to /. Some type of change happened after cmdrtaco left, others claim this happened years ago. You can see it with this comment:

It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk.

There're more examples I could pull out, many on the current homepage, but I'm lazy. The point is I no longer feel this is news for nerds and stuff that matters, it's more like it's DRUDGE Report for geeks with a smattering of PR and marketing hype. Are you deliberately looking for geeky-type news and slanting it for a libertarian audience? Is /. destined to become another news outlet where articles and comments are posted by PR firms?

Have you noticed how the number of comments has decreased? How the number of articles per day has increased? Granted my account is a 7 digit, but still, something is different. I still visit daily, but I don't plan to post. I'm sure this will be modded as troll, which I'm definitely not trying to be. This is my dear john letter.

Anyways /. it's been fun.