[bonzini]

Arvind Krishna seems like a pretty cool guy though, and definitely has engineering background.

It's interesting that everybody focuses on Red Hat after acquisition but no one ever asks how IBM is doing now. Maybe it's delusional to think that Red Hat could change something of its new overlord, but perhaps the acquisition was already showing the desire to change IBM from within?

[viridian]

IBM is doing okay, but not great. Their fiscal peak was a decade ago, and in terms of real dollars they aren't even at pre covid numbers yet. And on what little I know of the mainframe side, IBM is still very IBM-like, except they will now occasionally concur with consultants who point out places mainframe consumers are needlessly spending money.

[johnnyAghands]

It just felt like more of the same. I left soon after (2020) so perhaps things are changing. Was gutted to leave, IBM was always one of those mythical places to work for me, but in the end I made the right choice. Perhaps one day I'll go back, ha who knows!