How is Red Hat since IBM purchase?

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Aug 2, 2019 36 Comments

Any insights or still too soon?

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  • Red Hat / Sales
    MURICA🇺🇸🗽

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     MURICA🇺🇸🗽
    It's dope. IBM will start selling our container platform and with IBM's customer reach and marketing, openshift will be everywhere. I get paid for doing nothing, ibm does the selling to executives. I now have executive reach where I didn't before. What's not to love.
    Aug 3, 2019 5
    • IBM / Strategy
      ikyw

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       ikyw
      It’s always a bad sign when you hear “I get paid for doing nothing”. We know, enjoy while it lasts.
      Aug 3, 2019
    • Red Hat
      ®️🦶

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      ®️🦶
      And here I am busting my ass on the consulting side delivering on your lies while sitting on your ass. Honestly bro, you are the guard who NEEDS to be cleansed out of here. Prob came by way of oracle. You are not our culture, you are what I call yesteryears growing pains. Rode the high wave from other peoples back. Drink the koolaid for the wrong reasons. Necessary headcount to adjust for growth but I will continue to bust my ass as they walk your ass out of here. Most people around here are not like this but these dumbfucks still landed here from time to time.
      Aug 8, 2019
  • IBM / Data
    bbWI22

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     bbWI22
    Like this
    Aug 3, 2019 1
  • Red Hat / Eng
    Qacf30

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     Qacf30
    I can't speak authoritatively for everyone across the organization, but from talking to colleagues it sounds like business as usual everywhere. The main difference is that we now have a juggernaut sales team behind us that's incentivized to sell our stuff. I myself am on the Engineering side of the house and absolutely nothing has changed. I still work 100% upstream and in the open, nobody's even hinted at changes in any way other than basically "we might have a whole lot more customers really soon, so keep metics on what's important to your team so we can staff accordingly as necessary" (paraphrasing, but that's the sentiment from management).
    Aug 3, 2019 5
    • Red Hat / Eng
      Qacf30

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       Qacf30
      Well shit. Here's to hoping we can pull off a miracle. :)
      Aug 6, 2019
    • IBM / IT
      mach_

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       mach_
      I think Redhat really sells itself even with shitty salesmen. Redhat will be fine, and IBM will be better off with Redhat under their wing. It's more of an incentive to other either people to pair with other IBM products or vice verse. It's prob the best thing Ginni has done to date!
      Aug 7, 2019
  • IBM
    VKRx46

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    VKRx46
    Would love it if Jim took over and then axed Ginni's entire C-suite (maybe even a level below them as well).

    I doubt that could ever happen, but I'd bet it'd be an amazing turnaround if he did.
    Aug 3, 2019 3
    • IBM / IT
      mach_

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       mach_
      As good as this idea sounds, someone else within IBM needs to step up. Jim can't handle a company the size of IBM. IBM is ridiculously huge, and Redhat is what 5% of IBM in every way?
      Aug 7, 2019
    • IBM / IT
      mach_

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       mach_
      Rosamilia prob a good start!
      Aug 7, 2019
  • Red Hat / Product
    Abe_Fr0man

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    I have the innernets
     Abe_Fr0man
    So far I’ve seen IBM honoring its word to keep us as a separate entity. Yeah, it’s really soon, but we’re still doing things our own way - our own strategies, our own delivery methods, our own products/services etc.
    That might change in time...who knows.

    I think the most interesting question will be this: Will IBM think of Red Hat as its “Open Source” arm of the company, or will it think of Red Hat as a transformation agent for all of IBM?

    We haven’t been told, and I think the answer to this will largely impact how things evolve over time. And if Jim Whitehurst does take over as CEO (as some people are predicting), it could mean good things for both of us in the long run.
    Aug 3, 2019 2