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Broadly independent but filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat. While this has been true of rank and file fo
by subpixel 2y ago
Broadly independent but filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat. While this has been true of rank and file for years, recently it’s true on the c-suite.
- throwaway2037 2y ago> filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat Was this true before the acquisition?
- ghaff 2y agoWas probably truer of middleware than other areas. (Which I gather is largely going over to IBM.) Linux had a very significant DEC legacy. OpenShift was essentially greenfield from a startup acquisition (that got totally rewritten for Kubernetes anyway) and I'm not sure I would characterize people in that area as broadly coming from any particular large vendor.