IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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      IBM will still sell you a brand new, updated mainframe in 2023.

      They’re also in the open source software space (IBM owns Red Hat, a software company that has a lot of projects for Linux. Red Hat has their own Linux distro too)

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        Which threats users to had their subscription cancelled when they share the source code according to GPL.

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      We did away with that pesky business failures. Now all corporate are eternal.

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      I knew they were a thing because I run into them in IT from time to time… but had no idea they owned the weather channel. Wild.