In the long run, Whitehurst's absence will leave a weakened IBM and Red Hat facing
stronger cloud and Linux rivals.
Byline says it all.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/with-whitehurst-stepping-down-where-do-ibm-and-red-hat-go-from-here/
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One word answer: dumpster
Chew em up and sp-t out the bones. The IBM way. What a disaster of a company.
Here is the Watson-summarization of the article:
After IBM acquired Red Hat ... fears have returned and doubled.
I foresee a massive culture clash coming ... for IBM.
Jim left because he just found out that IBM no longer has a symphony orchestra.
You are correct. This is the reason Jim is leaving... He figured out that with the current IBM leadership and AK in particular, the company has no chance to improve.
IBM is going to take a sledgehammer snd bust up RH.
Not like JW was doing an amazing job anyway. He had over a year and couldn't budge RH's revenues one bit. It's still puttin along just the same.
RH is going to get fully assimilated in the next year, the CEO of RH will get the boot at some point, a lot of RH employees will leave for better companies.
We have seen this scenario many times before at IBM when IBM acquires a company.