The open power team has been let go along with other power engineers. Looks like we are moving out of growth and only going to focus on existing enterprise customers. Ugly day in Austin and other power sites.
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Would not be surprised if sold to Chinese company, they already licences the IP except the floating point
@dve - The Power hardware business is not the entire organization. What I heard was that Power hardware and IP would be sold with a long term JDA with IBM so that new systems are developed for the declining enterprise business. I have also heard another, separate rumor that Google was interested in purchasing Power. If that were to happen I am sure Linux on Power would still be very much alive.
not sure about Linux,
this caught a lot of people off guard, layoffs were not surprising, it was the size that was shocking, something is up with Power, there must be a stage 2 on the way like selling it off ... because it can not sustain and release Power10 and 11 without major changes, It was already in trouble before the layoff because of all the loses at the leadership and worker bee level.
@zbu I am wondering which company would be interested in buying the Power organization. It does not seem to be profitable.
@jyg - The latest rumor I heard was that Power hardware business would be sold and IBM would retain AIX and IBM i. There was no mention of Linux so go figure.
What about linux on Power? Is it a dead end?
Jobs are being moved out of USA