When Red Hat's acquisition announcement from IBM was announced, employees of the largest open source software company did not get it so well.
However, life seems to continue as before for Red Hat employees. The big difference? The company will be able to use IBM's huge resources.
With IBM, Red Hat will retain its autonomy. CEO Jim Whitehurst and his current management team will continue to lead the company. Red Hat will maintain its existing facilities, trademarks and unique Red Hat leadership style.
The last thing IBM wants is to turn Red Hat into another brand name company. "Red Hat must and will remain independent," said Arvind Krishna, IBM senior vice president of hybrid cloud.
This idea is not as radical as it sounds. Too many IBM departments have been given vast liberties. Externally, the company seems to function as a monolithic kingdom, but in reality it is a subset of kingdoms under the same name.
For example, all the preletterand Red Hat's open source operating systems, such as RedHelp Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS, Ansible, WildFly (formerly JBoss), and more, will continue to be developed as before. In addition, all open source programs supported by Red Hat, such as the OpenStack cloud, will continue to be supported.
Paul Cormier, president of Red Hat's products and technologies, said the acquisition would not have an impact on the day-to-day operations of the company.
The day we close, there will be nothing different, it will be work as usual with the same roadmaps and we will continue to do what is right for the community. There will be no changes, I don't know how else to put it, there will be no change in the way we work with the Linux community.
In addition, Red Hat will continue to support all of its existing partners. Yes, this includes competitors in the cloud of IBM.
"Red Hat will continue to support existing partnerships with other cloud providers," Cormier said. These partners include Microsoft with Azure, the services Amazon Web and Google Cloud.
The merger and acquisition of the company are related to Cloud.
Cormier says:
We are not a company open code. We are a software company with an open source development model. The secret of Red Hat is that we have put these two things together. And IBM on the other hand has a huge history of enterprise software and open source development.
So it looks like IBM will continue to be a force supply software services for businesses, and Red Hat will continue to be a dominant player in open source. Together, they hope to become the biggest hybrid cloud powerhouse in the 21st century.
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