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by BeefWellington 1098 days ago
It's exactly this. When I worked at IBM some years ago via another acquisition, this is the same pattern I saw. Senior leadership -- people who had been at the prior company for nearly two decades -- were the ones gladly steering it aground in order to do what IBM wanted.

You can see this with Red Hat - the Chairman and the CEO are both long-time RHers. Were they just the opportunists?

All the talk about running RH as an independent subsidiary was either smoke and mirrors or the IBM management style has infected the leadership at Red Hat.

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> or the IBM management style has infected the leadership at Red Hat.

Tbh, if it hadn't, they would have been outed long ago.