Comment by altmind

This is terrible news, I really hope this deal does not go through, get blocked by shareholders or by anti-trust laws.

I also remember that IBM is not doing good - profits are decreasing and their software and services division fail to produce any innovation for the last years.

Did IBM need to buy whole RH to strengthen their cloud offering? Couldnt they just partnered with RH cloud division, leaving RH Core team independent?