[bonzini]

> FWIW I have heard that IBM used to force their management style on acquisitions in years past

Definitely wasn't like that for Red Hat. We had a CFO with an IBM past which was a really nice guy and never ever felt like he was parachutes from IBM.

Now after 6 years legal, HR and finance will move to IBM starting next January; but my perspective from engineering is that after the acquisition it's been and remains business as usual.

I have no idea how it was for Hashicorp.

[lisbbb]

Haven't heard a damn thing about "RedHat" in years, though. It's dead as far as Linux distros go. I'm sure it's used in the IBM-o-sphere, but I'm just not around that at all.

[bonzini]

Well I am not sure what other commercial distros you consider to be alive, but Red Hat makes Canonical's yearly revenue in a couple weeks.

Outside IBM land, Meta runs on a CentOS Stream fork.

[nineteen999]

> I'm just not around that at all.

You might live/work in a bubble. It's used everywhere in large enterprise.