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IBM's culture is highly suppressive to any free-spirited, entrepreneurial organization that they acquire. Red Hat will be no different in suffering from this oppressive situation. There is no real spontaneous creativity or innovation allowed in the IBM culture. The Red Hat culture will die a slow but painful death. The software business segment that Red Hat is playing in now is free-wheeling as no one has a monopoly to be able to rate limit progress. IBM will most likely ruin the Red Hat business as they have ruined countless acquisitions before this one. There is no such thing as free-wheeling at IBM, just methodical, incremental processes.
I think Red Hat's software is horrible. I like the new version of Ubuntu Server (20.04) a lot more than RHEL 8.
ROKS.... very appropriate!
IBM is no longer relevant and a dinosaur. all dinosaurs die. They will destroy RH just like they did all other acquisitions. Update your resume's and leave, NOW.
While working in IBM for over 38 years, I've learned a few things.
1) Don't believe anything Executives says about a merger or acquisition
2) Repeat #1
3) Unless Arvind is really different, RH will no longer exist in 3 to 5 years and IBM will have wasted the the benefits of acquiring them. (ref, Lotus, Tivioli, and 100's of others.
4) If you have current skills leave as soon as possible.
- S. Did anyone notice that after IBM took over the Weather Channel the web site slowed down and really s—s now!
Does IBM have a "culture" any more?
What genius at IBM came up with the strategy of "let's overpay for a company with tons of overlap with stuff we already have, so we can lay off all of our people working on those" ?
Is it the guy in charge now? Beware of future overlapping acquisitions.
1rgw. You may be correct, but I would say Redhat has already changed IBM’s culture as the company has placed all of their chips on “openshift, and OpenStack” All of the RA’s were focused there, or around dumping commodity HW, SW, and services. That seems to me to be a quite big cultural change at IBM.
When AT&T bought DTV they made a huge point of telling us how they wouldn't change the culture that made us successful and more nimble, they they wanted to adopt our energy and less rigid organizational behavior.
That lasted about 2 years then AT&T completely destroyed DTV as a business and a company culture.
Buying a small company (relative to IBM's large size) and expecting this smaller company, Red Hat, to change the culture of the larger company is 100% id–t-think. Red Hat will most likely change over time due to attrition of their employees who like working at a fast and nimble software company versus a slow moving, process oriented company like IBM. The companies are operated separately now so IBM doesn't ruin Red Hat. These two companies are culturally incompatible .
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IBM bought Redhat to change the current IBM culture. A lot of IBM’ers will have to leave due to the overlap of Redhat capabilities and IBM capabilities. If you are an IBM’er ask your self this question. What product have I worked on that still has the same name If the SW you worked on has been rebranded or renamed in the last 5 years, the odds of you remaining with IBM have dropped. IBM is trying to change their culture, and that involves bringing in a new team. That’s the go to market strategy Krishna is executing.
Can we add "H-1B" and "S386" to the filter list? I am so sick and tired of seeing every thread hijacked by the spam, some of which, quite frankly, is borderline-racist. (Yes, we get your point. Please shut the f— up about it now.)