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I was at Red Hat while Jim was CEO. He’s very culture focused and is an excellent choice for restoring faith there. He got great results while at Red Hat, but t

by jzb 3y ago

I was at Red Hat while Jim was CEO. He’s very culture focused and is an excellent choice for restoring faith there. He got great results while at Red Hat, but they plucked him out for a non-CEO role at IBM after the acquisition. IMO that has been IBMs greatest sin in its handling of Red Hat. Jim was active on memo-list and seemed to listen to people. That doesn’t mean he’s perfect, but I’d give him very high marks and I think that he had a lot of goodwill among Red Hatters as CEO.

linuxftw 3y ago
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- mathisfun123 3y ago
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  - Qwertious 3y ago
    >Do not perpetuate the myth that the vaccines slowed the spread. Oh wow, you're not kidding.
- NegativeK 3y ago
  > Everyone has Mac Books now. I don't even work there and I know that this is, at the least, hyperbole.
  - dralley 3y ago
    I do work there and it's total BS, certainly as far as engineering goes. Maybe in marketing / sales / HR the story is different, but the overwhelming majority of engineering, support and QE (including the management chain) use Thinkpads with Fedora or RHEL.
- KerrAvon 3y ago
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  - gorjusborg 3y ago
    What codewords would those be?
  - fyrn_ 3y ago
    GP doesn't exactly seem fun at parties, but calling them racist seems pretty extreme
  - eraser215 3y ago
    I spotted that too. By contrast I'd prefer this person shouted it out loud without code so that everybody could see them for who they are.
  - linuxftw 3y ago
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        dang 3y ago
        You started a hellish flamewar in this thread, and perpetuated it badly. If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you. We've had to warn you about this more than once already. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
        willdr 3y ago
- eraser215 3y ago
  Almost everything you said here is complete garbage. Underperform the rest of the tech sector? No... 70+ quarters of successive double digit growth until the acquisition. Mismanaged the company with respect to virtualisation? You're conflating mismanaging the company with possible strategic errors in virtualisation. Destroy FOSS spirit? Absolutely the opposite. He is held in the highest esteem by every red hatter I have ever spoken to. Not only that, but he made the effort to do red hat training to learn the tech in the early days. How has he destroyed any FOSS spirit through his actions? Give an example. Everyone has macbooks now? No. Sellers generally do, I'll give you that, but technical staff are mostly using Fedora or RHEL. Flexibility has always been a huge part of the employee experience. Standard corporate welfare initiatives for liberal arts majors? You sound like an angry white man who can't stand that people other than yourself may have their disadvantage recognised nowadays. Stop feeling so threatened. Why are you so bitter?
  - dang 3y ago
    Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Your comment would be fine without the first and last bits. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: yikes - you broke the site guidelines quite badly in several other places in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827386 We have to ban accounts that post that way. If you'd please stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it. The idea is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do—regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.
  - dralley 3y ago
    "The sector" is also a bit of an apples/oranges situation. There are very, very, very few if any pure-play open source software companies that are as successful as Red Hat.

by jzb 3y ago

linuxftw 3y ago

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mathisfun123 3y ago
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- Qwertious 3y ago
  >Do not perpetuate the myth that the vaccines slowed the spread. Oh wow, you're not kidding.
NegativeK 3y ago
> Everyone has Mac Books now. I don't even work there and I know that this is, at the least, hyperbole.
- dralley 3y ago
  I do work there and it's total BS, certainly as far as engineering goes. Maybe in marketing / sales / HR the story is different, but the overwhelming majority of engineering, support and QE (including the management chain) use Thinkpads with Fedora or RHEL.
KerrAvon 3y ago
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- gorjusborg 3y ago
  What codewords would those be?
- fyrn_ 3y ago
  GP doesn't exactly seem fun at parties, but calling them racist seems pretty extreme
- eraser215 3y ago
  I spotted that too. By contrast I'd prefer this person shouted it out loud without code so that everybody could see them for who they are.
- linuxftw 3y ago
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  - rossjudson 3y ago
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    - linuxftw 3y ago
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      - dang 3y ago
        You started a hellish flamewar in this thread, and perpetuated it badly. If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you. We've had to warn you about this more than once already. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
      - willdr 3y ago
eraser215 3y ago
Almost everything you said here is complete garbage. Underperform the rest of the tech sector? No... 70+ quarters of successive double digit growth until the acquisition. Mismanaged the company with respect to virtualisation? You're conflating mismanaging the company with possible strategic errors in virtualisation. Destroy FOSS spirit? Absolutely the opposite. He is held in the highest esteem by every red hatter I have ever spoken to. Not only that, but he made the effort to do red hat training to learn the tech in the early days. How has he destroyed any FOSS spirit through his actions? Give an example. Everyone has macbooks now? No. Sellers generally do, I'll give you that, but technical staff are mostly using Fedora or RHEL. Flexibility has always been a huge part of the employee experience. Standard corporate welfare initiatives for liberal arts majors? You sound like an angry white man who can't stand that people other than yourself may have their disadvantage recognised nowadays. Stop feeling so threatened. Why are you so bitter?
- dang 3y ago
  Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Your comment would be fine without the first and last bits. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: yikes - you broke the site guidelines quite badly in several other places in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827386 We have to ban accounts that post that way. If you'd please stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it. The idea is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do—regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.
- dralley 3y ago
  "The sector" is also a bit of an apples/oranges situation. There are very, very, very few if any pure-play open source software companies that are as successful as Red Hat.