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Priced at $1,565 with 16KB of RAM and no disk drive, the IBM 5150 didn't look like a revolution on paper. Its open architecture is what made it one anyway.
IBM built the 5150 quickly, using off-the-shelf parts and an open architecture, expecting a modest niche product. Instead it became the template every PC-compatible computer still traces back to today.
Announced October 28, 2018 and closed July 9, 2019, IBM's purchase of Red Hat was the largest software acquisition in history at the time — and a direct bet on hybrid cloud built around Linux and open source.