From a post from earlier today on the RH board: @Ihlt+1uJ74o5i
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Apparently there were layoffs yesterday. A popular Red Hatter per his podcasts and youtube streams said on linkedin that he was laid off. Does anyone know if this was widespread?
and it seemed that that garbage product called Apptio that IBM paid a lot of money for would bring Alvind's sh*t farm back to life......but Alvind has no strategy, just a lot of misplaced hope and layoffs to save his bonus for 2025.
There are better versions of LINUX than Red Hat out there...and they offer better value than the pathetic support you get from Red Hat. You pay for garbage. Expect this product to go the way of others and get sold to HCL like everything else. That's $32 billion down Alvind's toilet bowl.
We need that discrimination case to go to trial.
RH is so yesterday. Hashicorp will be shiny new object for 2025. Get ready to be told to tag it on all your deals.
So what? Red Hat is unable to innovate? What a surprise!
"Buying innovation" is not innovation. It is acquisition and it is a losing strategy "because it cedes innovation to financial deal-making" (see below article to understand why and how). Any mirage of growth is due to a financial engineering shell game that has been evolving and improving over decades at the firm.
https://hbr.org/2022/09/the-perils-of-innovation-by-acquisition
Let the buying continue This buying innovation strategy will drop SW headcount considerably (its reasonable to expect 60%)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/red-hat-acquires-ai-optimization-startup-neural-magic/
The only acquisition worse than RH was Kenexa what a POS deal that was
SW group continues to pursue “buying innovation”, instead of developing it. As such the legacy workforce of Redhat is now exposed to replacement. A second milestone has also occurred. IBM in 2024 will have recouped its 34 billion purchase price of Redhat thus moving Redhat to a “legacy” status. Legacy status = enhance cost take out by whatever means to maximize sustain mode. Essentially we’ll buy whatever innovation is needed