An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Our coverage of CIQ from November 2022 focused on its heritage in the high-performance computing space.
Today, the buzz is around the CIQ-managed Rocky Linux distribution.
Red Hat’s recent change in strategy for how it would handle Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code made it difficult for RHEL clone distributors like CIQ to create RHEL-compatible operating systems moving forward.
Rather than stymie CIQ and other Linux vendors, however, Red Hat’s questionable move fired up the open-source community, driving increased interest in Rocky Linux.
CIQ joined with SUSE and Oracle to found OpenELA, a non-profit trade association that now provides a community repository for enterprise Linux sources with none of the barriers that Red Hat sought to build.
Combined with CIQ’s per-person support model, the company is well-positioned to steal even the largest of Red Hat’s RHEL customers.
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