# Fate of Ansible & Tower -- IBM Acquiring RedHat

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/fate-of-ansible-tower-ibm-acquiring-redhat/28901>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fate-of-ansible-tower-ibm-acquiring-redhat/28901 "2018-10-30T21:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Harmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@John\_Harmon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Harmon)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fate-of-ansible-tower-ibm-acquiring-redhat/28901/1 "2018-10-30T21:01:44Z")

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Maybe this isn’t the place for this, but just wondering your thoughts on the acquisition of RedHat by IBM. They promise to keep it as its own business unit, but we have seen things like this in the past. I used to work for Novell when it acquired Suse. Personally, I don’t trust IBM to do what they say they are going to do. I was wondering your thoughts (specifically in regards to Ansible and Ansible Tower)?

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**Author:** ![Syed\_Jafar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Syed\_Jafar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Syed_Jafar)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fate-of-ansible-tower-ibm-acquiring-redhat/28901/2 "2018-10-30T21:17:09Z")

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My take on it pretty simple. RedHat creativity (good days) days are over. Anything IBM touches turns to rock.