From: arne@vajhoej.dk

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.

Again I wonder if you read what you are replying to.

Arne

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