Red Hat (Under IBM) Works for Microsoft (Proprietary Software) and Slop

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2026

Yesterday Red Hat's official site, redhat.com, published exactly 5 new blog posts. 3 of them were about slop:

• IT automation with agentic AI: Introducing the MCP server for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

  Tools that enable administrators and developers to inspect and tune Ansible Automation Platform infrastructure itself. 

• Fast and simple AI deployment on Intel Xeon with Red Hat OpenShift

  Meanwhile, the developers and engineers working on AI face challenges in complex and time-consuming infrastructure setup and difficulty in building out software stacks and architectures for optimal large language model (LLM) inference with retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Ease of use, security of proprietary data, and even how to get started building AI are technical challenges that may bar developers from entry to AI. 

• Cracking the inference code: 3 proven strategies for high-performance AI

  The core challenge for enterprise AI is mainly operational: Solving the efficiency equation. It is no longer enough to just run a model, you must run it with precision performance. How do you maximize tokens per dollar? How do you make sure that a sudden spike in traffic doesn’t bring your application to a halt?

The rest (2 in total) were selling Microsoft's proprietary stuff:

• General Availability for managed identity and workload identity on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift

  This is a significant milestone that provides an enhanced security posture for how your Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters access other Azure resources. This enables you to eliminate the complexity of managing service principal credentials and embrace a more streamlined and secure authentication process.

• Announcing general availability of SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  With SQL Server 2025 support on RHEL 10, organizations can run mission-critical SQL Server workloads on a platform built for hybrid cloud, edge, and AI-driven environments. This release reinforces our joint commitment to delivering a secure, high-performance, and enterprise-grade database experience on Linux, optimized for today's most demanding workloads.

Yesterday wasn't even so exceptional (100% about Microsoft and slop). This is just what Red Hat does now that IBM is struggling to sell/license any of its own stuff.

Red Hat betting on Microsoft is a huge mistake because Microsoft has many of its own problems.

Microsoft pushed slop and built its identity around slop. So it's vulnerable.

Slop is a bubble; it won't end well.

We no longer find much slop and in today's news about "linux" I saw only one new example and it was slop about slop:

Red Hat's love of Microsoft means that Red Hat will get a new name like "Microslop" and be associated with plagiarism and things that generally fail to work as advertised.

Novell died when it became a vassal of Microsoft. Red Hat's relationship with Microsoft can only ever end with Microsoft on top. █