https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article302379724.html "Worldwide, IBM began 2025 with 270,300 employees, including at subsidiaries like the Raleigh software provider Red Hat, which marked a 4% decrease from the previous year. "
Red Hat parent IBM drops DEI hiring incentive, erases diversity from new annual report
Clearly AK and Big Blue are planning to settle the America First Legal lawsuit out of court. Good riddance on the death of DEI. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article301843424.html By: Brian Gordon Updated March 13, 2025 8:41... — read more
Seems like IBM is now laying of people of the Fedora Project
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/proposal-to-move-community-blog-to-fedora-discussion/
IBM to combine key division with Red Hat unit
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/03/05/ibm-data-security-red-hat-middleware-units-combine.html
Earlier today, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared the following email with Red Hatters.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strategy
IBM layoffs at North Carolina
"But the actual number of impacted workers is likely higher, as those disclosures, called Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARNs), are only required in cases of plant closures and federally-defined mass layoffs. If it's less than... — read more
Red Hat has been reduced to buzzwords
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/uk-ai-skills-gap-red-hat-2024/ https://www.telecomtv.com/content/ai-native-telco-summit/red-hat-offers-cloud-smarts-to-ai-native-telcos-51514/
Probably Red Hat also
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/kyndryl_layoffs/
Upcoming Q4 Layoffs
Any information to share?
"Agree they layoff in smaller amounts to bypass the laws about reporting it."
"At least Cisco and Intel and other companies are honest about the fact that they're laying people off. Unlike IBM. IBM is incinerating the bodies to keep regulators from finding out and destroying careers and reputations in the process. All... — read more
Is Red Hat affected by IBM mass layoffs? No comment?
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/ibm-to-close-china-rd-department-affecting-over-1000-jobs-yicai-reports/article68568718.ece ... — read more
Matt Hicks
Sux! That is all
William Hill Consulting?
19 hours ago in https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/05/20/red_hat_prunes_middleware/ "Did they really retain McKinsey & Company, or did they actually bring William Hill on-board? Personally I don’t rate the odds on the gambles being... — read more
Red Hat Had 5+ Days to Deny Reports of Impending Layoffs. But Red Hat Chose to Keep Silent.
http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/22/Red_Hat_Had_2_Days_to_Deny_Reports_of_Impending_Layoffs_But_Red.shtml
management did ki-l off RHEL future growth prospects
15 hours ago: "Looks a bit like the boneheaded management decisions on CentOS a couple of years ago really did ki-l off RHEL future growth prospects? Or maybe this is completely unrelated... Oh well, in any case time to cut R&D to the bone and milk... — read more
Layoffs to be announced this week
Long, long overdue. Should be announced Thursday
IBM’s Red Hat Sued by Stephen Miller’s Legal Group for Anti-White Male Bias
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-red-hat-sued-stephen-203247923.html
IBM's Red Hat SUED over culling 21 white men employees as CEO vowed to punish managers who missed DEI targets
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13400269/IBM-Red-Hat-SUED-culling-white-men-CEO-punish-DEI-targets.html
Fire thousands at Red Hat, then buy Microsoft hashicorp
"HashiCorp will retain its name and the Terraform brand. The 2,200-person company will report to Thomas’s IBM software group in its own division, and Thomas said IBM isn’t planning... — read more
Get ready Hatters
IBM filed a W.A.R.N with the state of North Carolina. That only means one thing.
He is way below retirement age
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/paul-cormier-chairman-of-ibm-subsidiary-red-hat-to-retire
One-year anniversary
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today
friday-list
"Chris Wright has been at RH long enough to remember the old internal memo-list maillist, before management split it into friday-list to stop people openly flaming d-mb management decisions."... — read more
One year ago (today)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/24/ibm_red_hat_layoffs/
Red Hat is paying McKinsey, the layoffs expert, instead of paying its own staff (McKinsey has layoffs too)
https://news.abplive.com/business/major-layoffs-in-2024-companies-cutting-jobs-this-year-tech-tesla-mckinsey-apple-amazon-1680411
IBM first-quarter-earnings report on April 24, 2024.
April 24, 2023: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today
More layoffs on the way
They are going to integrate RH into IBM. RH has not meet financial targets so no more standalone the IBM rto rules will go into effect and large layoff coming
Leaks from Red Hat on "Whiteness" and "Allyship"
Ummmmmm. . .any comment AK? How Whiteness Works internal slide -- https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1736935129925513452 Allyship slide -- https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1735816936838041887
Arvind says Matt Hicks is moviing on[pushed]
BuhBYE Matty
Red Hat to add 350 employees in cloud deal with Nokia, sees ‘wide range of new customers’
A moment of silence for those soon-to-be-fallen former Nokia employees. https://wraltechwire.com/2023/06/29/red-hat-to-add-350-employees-in-cloud-deal-with-nokia-sees-wide-range-of-new-customers/
I am dobe sith Enterprise Linux
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux
When does the other shoe drop?
Anyone hearing anything ?
Red Hat RTO Return to Office is NEXT on the IBM agenda
The IBM Borg Collective says resistance is futile!!!! secret memo describes discussions between Arvind and Hicks Red Hat is IBM and will be expected to act like it No more Raleigh Hippie Commune living!!
Relocation from EMEA to US?
I know the times are tough and the budgets were sliced but is it still possible though?
Heres an idea about AI/ ML
If AI/ ML is so great lets replace flunkies like Hicks Nash Dudeck ALL C-\Suite
Terrible communication
Communication about layoffs is very poor. Why is that? Despite everything, I expected little more transparency.