I’m a former IBM employee, but I like to be informed about the company, givet that I still keep in touch with people that work there. What I would like to ask is has anyone felt any change at the company since the RedHat acquisition. Looking from the outsider point of view everything seems pretty much the same.
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@4uoz, you have to realize that with the purchase of Red Hat, IBM Cloud is already dead, so is ICP. There is absolutely no point to waste your time on these failed IBM products.
In GBS we now have mandatory training on Redhat. Heavily biased on selling points to our clients.
Strangely enough, never got the same training for IBM Cloud.
Until my pay structure gives me a benefit for pushing Redhat, I will continue to refuse recommending any products to my clients.
I am in the Cloud area and this has the same effect as any big news. Everything pauses waiting for the change to happen and then we see what to do next. So we sit now and wait.
The acquisition hasn't gone through yet. Business as usual until then.
The big change is that all the training and strategy is now around multicloud with a heavy services focus. Otherwise everyone is waiting to find out which of the overlapping products will be sent to the glue factory.
Red Hat is a small part of IBM. Why should it affect much? You're joining 12,000 people to 350,000, and they're basically expected to run themselves. IBM is its own country.