https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/The_Bluewashing_of_Red_Hat_is_Being_Completed_Many_Staff_Unders.shtml
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THE ONLY VALUE THAT RED HAT HAD ($34 billion in cash) was for AK... he used it to climb to the very top.
Then, as he always does, had no idea what to do with it, so he milked the cow for as long as he could to pretend he was bringing revenue in and get his money.
Bye bye, $34 billions. Bye bye.
Red Hat is overrated. There’s absolutely no value I can’t get for cheaper at the top cloud providers.
And let us be honest, it’s basically a job program for North Carolina.
One of our executives went to RH rumors were that she and Joanne Wright often did not see eye to eye. She started her own group there and took about 20 people with her
Now she’s going to report to JW again
@db Agree!
IBM has had 5 CMOs in 4 years. And none of them could measure up to Jon Iwata.
-- Jonathan A back in the saddle in 2025
-- Clay C: departed in 2025 after 6 months
-- Jonathan A: 2022 - 2024
-- Carla PS: 2022 after 11 months
-- Michelle P: Departed in 2021
Problem was, IBM forgot they needed a strong marketing presence to get noticed again. Not like the old days of "you never get fired for buying IBM." No sir. Now, "you never have a job for longer than 2 years if you work at IBM in the US." If they had paid attention to marketing and found a REAL CMO instead of Jhonny Ad Shack [who on day one said "I'm not a marketer," they might have had a chance. But now it's too late. They're left to circle their mainframe customers like buzzards and send the rest of the work to India. Alvind, the Chief Curry Officer, once cared about people so I'm told. But now it's just bonuses, stock and Jim Cramer. Best o' luck to all at Busted Blue.
I am surprised it’s taken IBM this long to “squeeze” Redhat. Remember with the purchase of Redhat, IBM adopted a new go to market strategy. Buy innovation, monitize the distribution of the acquired SW worldwide, layoff the legacy that the acquired SW replaced, offshore all support, and consolidate operations to gain efficiency. SW division has become computer associates. I suspect IBM is keeping development/marketing/sales on shore because they need innovation to generate value, and offshoring has not produced that yet.
"Hybrid cloud" was never anything more than a buzzword for "containers". The idea being you could run them anywhere, on prem or cloud, regardless of HW architecture. That was the idea anyway, what IBM wanted was for you to have a reason to keep your mainframe around.
Changes of Red Hat policies (licensing, source availability, inversion of Fedora vs RHEL, CentOS, participation in OS projects, etc.) have already disappointed a significant percentage of the Linux community and sent many customers and droves of potentially future customers away to other distributions - these changes "coincidentally" occurred after the IBM acquisition.
This is not "being completed" .. assuming IBM survives, this will go on for many more years.
It's "Burn, Red Baby, Burn"
So much for all the BS that Alvind and Ginni (and Tonic) were throwing around about Red Hat after the Red Hat acquisition.
$32+ Billion for this junk ?? No, thank you. Not in a million years. Not worth it.
The same thing is happening with AI and Quantum BS. IBM is Burned and Blackened Toast. How much is IBM paying Cramer under the table ?
Hybrid cloud was the biggest thing after blockchain.
Remember when IBM announced it's intention to buy Red Hat on October 28, 2018 and the press release promised that this would completely change the cloud landscape!
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-worlds-1-hybrid-cloud-provider
This took much longer than I thought it would. I can’t believe red hat lasted this long. Now the downfall of redhead begins. Integration with IBM is the kiss of death. Morale will crash. Many layoffs rounds will start. Product quality will slip. Good luck, red hat employees.