My personal thought on Jim’s IBM-Red Hat Departure
6 min readJul 7, 2021
October 28th, 2018. It was a Sunday morning that I woke up with an email notification from the Red Hat “memo-list” with a coworker sharing a Bloomberg article indicating a possible merger between IBM and Red Hat. Many Red Hatters replied to that email threads, expressing their opinions whether that is a rumor or not, but no one could doubt that Bloomberg is a reputable source even when that was a…