Comment by bonzini
7 days ago
> FWIW I have heard that IBM used to force their management style on acquisitions in years past
Definitely wasn't like that for Red Hat. We had a CFO with an IBM past which was a really nice guy and never ever felt like he was parachutes from IBM.
Now after 6 years legal, HR and finance will move to IBM starting next January; but my perspective from engineering is that after the acquisition it's been and remains business as usual.
I have no idea how it was for Hashicorp.
Haven't heard a damn thing about "RedHat" in years, though. It's dead as far as Linux distros go. I'm sure it's used in the IBM-o-sphere, but I'm just not around that at all.
Well I am not sure what other commercial distros you consider to be alive, but Red Hat makes Canonical's yearly revenue in a couple weeks.
Outside IBM land, Meta runs on a CentOS Stream fork.
> I'm just not around that at all.
You might live/work in a bubble. It's used everywhere in large enterprise.