RH Management is telling them they will get a better severance package than IBMers
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what's wrong with Ansible?
You obviously don't have to use the garbage if you're asking that.
Wait - didn't IBM suck Ceph over to Spectrum Storage just recently?
That'll be a bellwether test of IBM's commitment to leading open source.
1st sub test will be whether they can travel to conferences and maintain Ceph leadership.
2nd sub test will be maintaining staffing of an open source leadership product.
Oh wait. it's in India. No Israel. No USA. All three? Inquiring minds want to know.
All from IBM's stewardship
"Putting it all on Z" is IBM's ruination of Red Hat
Interestingly
(1) I was very observant when observed the focus on Z/Mainframes
(2) I was very observant when they removed (re-deployed) our product's Z/Linux resource.
Um, so focus on Z/Mainframes, and you clip ALL of Z AND Z product hard?
IBM's "Severance" isn't "Severance" - it is payment for signing the gag order.
If you don't believe me read the separation agreement your manager sent a few weeks back.
Most other companies pay "Severance" with no gag order strings. IBM does not.
It's not just Ansible. Red Hat has a lot of really great stuff. But this fetish for putting all of it on Z is very misguided. How many Z customers running a banks online transactions are saying "it would be so awesome if we could containerize this mash up of CICS and DB2 and IMS and COBOL and assembler?" The answer is zero. "Spinning up another instance" for these guys is kind of a big deal.
This slightly voodoo "hybrid cloud" mission is a play to keep Z somehow relevant in whatever environment emerges at that bank. That's a reasonable thing to want to do. But somehow pretending that developing on Z and running on Z is pretty much the same as on cloud (the natural home of all that great Red Hat stuff) is delusional.
No one needs Ansible. Other than that, it's great.
what's wrong with Ansible?
Please take Ansible with you on the way out.
Yes companies comfort those they just canned lol
Always challenge a severance!
That’s highly unlikely as IBM claims they don’t discriminate