HashiCorp’s programs are ideal fit for IBM/Red Hat’s software lines, but why buy the company when the software’s free and open?

Opinion  In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I’ve heard the joke about how if you put them together, you’d get “Terrible.”…