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The consolidation of power and IP into just several tech companies is worrying to me. Having the misfortune of working at IBM for just a few months, IBM leadership will give it the RedHat treatment. The dinosaurs at IBM will shelve their IP, and sell it for parts. Maybe Bloodmoar will buy up the rest and squeeze whatever remaining profit from acquisition.

If given the chance, just take the exit rather than trying to integrate into IBM.



>IBM leadership will give it the RedHat treatment. The dinosaurs at IBM will shelve their IP, and sell it for parts.

As someone working at Red Hat since before the acquisition, this does not match my experience of "the Red Hat treatment" even a little bit.

I don't doubt that they've handled acquisitions badly in the past but they did a decent job leaving us alone.


Biggest change I've seen is the intranet page now has an option to use IBM's single sign on in addition to RH's single sign on.


There have been larger changes in areas that the SEC could point their fingers at, to make things more uniform between IBM and Red Hat. Sales also had some changes on both sides.

For engineering almost no difference other than switching to Slack.




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