That makes more sense. It's still sad to hear. As an outsider, Red Hat always stood out to me as a truly special company. Too few 'open-source' enterprises have figured out how to profitably develop F/OSS in a principled way, without the 'open core' bait-and-switch.
It's just the tech company circle of life, I guess. I wonder what younger tech company might play a similar role as Red Hat has another 30 years from now, and if they even exist yet.
It was after but like for CentOS Stream the writing had been on the wall long enough; both rwmj and I are in the virtualization team.
There was hardly any new feature between RHV 4.3 (early 2019) and 4.4 (2020, last non-maintenance release) and there literally wasn't time for IBM to say anything about RHV 4.4, considering that feature work for 4.4 would have started before the acquisition (July 2019).
I am sore because I had many customers who were left without a path that made sense for them. Kubevirt is the future but it would be like giving your Grandpop a hoverboard. He’ll break a hip.
OK, my previous comment was an overstatement. This is what's happening.