[Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

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Will Red Hat come out Blue Hat after IBM blue washing?

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 16:21, <Chuck_Petras at selinc.com> wrote:

> Cringely has some interesting observations...
>
> "The deal is a good fit for many reasons explained below. And remember Red
> Hat is just down the road from IBM’s huge operation in Raleigh, NC.
>
> "Will Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now run out and buy SUSE, Ubuntu,
> Apache, etc?  Yes.
>
> "Will there be a mad rush to create new Linux distros? No. I think that
> boat has already sailed and further Linux branding won’t happen, at least
> not for traditional business reasons.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> "These big questions have yet to be answered, of course. Only time will
> tell. But we’ll shortly begin to see hints. What happens to Red Hat
> management, for example? There are those who think Red Hat will, in many
> ways, become the surviving corporate culture here — that is if Red Hat’s
> Jim Whitehurst gets Ginni Rometty’s IBM CEO job as part of the deal. That’s
> what I am predicting will happen. Ginni is overdue for retirement, this
> acquisition will not only qualify her for a huge retirement package, it
> will do so in a way that won’t be clearly successful or unsuccessful for
> years to come, so no clawbacks. And yet the market will (eventually) love
> it, IBM shares will soar, and Ginni will depart looking like a genius.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> "In the end the C-suite of IBM may be finally admitting to themselves what
> you and I have known for several years — that their strategic imperatives
> are not doing as well as they promised.  They also know they’ve invested
> way too much in stock repurchases and way too little in the business.  So
> with this Red Hat deal they’ve basically bet the farm to get themselves
> back in the game.
>
> "With Whitehurst at the top of IBM, the company will not only have an
> outsider like Gerstner was, it will have its first CEO ever who won’t be
> coming with a sales background. This is very good, because IBM will have a
> technical leader finally running the show.
>
> "Let’s review:
>
> "Ginni Rometty is past the age where IBM likes to retire CEO’s, which is
> 60.
>
> "Jim Whitehurst is 51, the age when IBM likes to hire new CEO’s.
>
> "I don’t see Whitehurst moving to Armonk, I do see IBM moving to Raleigh.
>
> "I do see Whitehurst as CEO of IBM in six months or less.
>
> "The Red Hat team will expand their products into new areas. IBM
> executives will retire in droves because they can’t compete and will resist
> learning something new.
>
>
> *Red Hat takes over IBM*
> https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/ [cringely.com]
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>
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