[rubbsdecvik]

Different Red Hat employee here, that said, this opinion is my own and I have no real authority to say anything beyond my experience. I, in my job, have a lot of contact with IBM folks now for obvious reasons, but I think it's a slow Red washing rather than the other way around. The independence of Red Hat is fiercely defended and is largely respected, even by IBM. I think we all want this to work as it is, rather than make huge changes, especially culturally.

[stuff4ben]

IBM employee here, can confirm (the Red-washing) after having developed a product that HAS to be running on OpenShift and HAS to go through RedHat's horrible scanning and catalog system. Of course this is in addition to IBM's existing horrible scanning and catalog registries. It's a red layer on top of existing blue layers of tape. It's multi-colored bureaucratic tape all the way down.

[tyingq]

I'm sure RedHat can stave it off longer, but a fair amount of the Softlayer folks were optimistic at first too.

[bonzini]

IBM never had a Softlayer president (and also paid an order of magnitude less than for Red Hats).

[cfcosta]

Red Hat employee here as well. Didn't feel any difference, it's still a great place to work, but I don't usually interact with IBM folks.

[cptnapalm]

So it's becoming Big Red instead of Blue Hat? That's encouraging.