[LightDestory]

Thanks for the info @LightDestory.  This makes me very sad.  I'm a CentOS enthusiast and I hate change.  Mind you I'm an IBM enthusiast too.  All I can say I hope it will work out so I can still use it.  

I'd be very interested to hear @fChk's comments on this, since he's a very experienced and expert user of CentOS.

Can't help but wonder whether this will provide a gap for CentOS enthusiasts to create new forks based on RHEL.  IBM may be creating demand for an alternative OS based on RHEL.

A new project to continue the "CentOS way" already started. It is called Rocky Linux. No releases has been released yet, well it is too soon for them, but you can follow the project on their github.