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Project Lightwell will seek to achieve many things, Red Hat tells us, but most importantly it will fix the code enterprise actually run – with those paying a premium deciding the priorities.
'The same features and qualities that distinguish IBM Z and LinuxONE will be available to aarch64 workloads.'
" We scan systems, and we routinely see 20,000 or 30,000 customisations" - many are obsolete, but for AI they can be critical.
More than $50 billion on OSS acquisitions later, some in the Kafka community hope IBM brings stability, others worry about the impact.
Pre-auth RCE on an OS run in mission-critical environments? Might want to patch that...