[MelioRatio]

If anyone wants to find out more on what Cormier wants to focus on over the coming years, he did a small QnA: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/get-know-red-hat-president-an...

It will be interesting to see, how his management style is going to impact Red Hat over the coming years. Considering his background and acumen, I feel like there is going to be a stronger focus on tailored services and specific solutions for organizations. They are already very active in the health care and financial industry, so this could be an area they might expand.

[stuff4ben]

A lot of IBM products are in the cloud and the focus from Whitehurst as IBM president is that cloud, containers/K8s/RHOSP, and edge are the big things that will be going on. It will be very interesting to see how RH plays into the broader IBM strategy. Will RH become the platform and IBM becomes tooling, services, and products on top of that platform? Or will RH move to more consultancy and enterprise IT services? Coming from Cisco where the acquired company always gets folded into the mothership, I find it very interesting to see IBM's stance of keeping RH alone and mostly separate. At least for now...

[cachestash]

its very possible and widely touted that it could go the other way, in that Red Hat takes over IBM (culturally. Red Hat certainly has a strong enough culture to do that.

[eskaytwo]

Except Meraki - that’s been kept seperate in a similar way to RedHat.