I’m Brad Micklea and I lead Red Hat’s Developer Business Unit, which covers developer evangelism, our developer program at developers.redhat.com, and our developer tools. All these facets of our business, as with Red Hat more generally, will remain independent from IBM. This means that…<p>- You’ll still bump into our fantastic Red Hat developer relations team at events, meetups and keynotes.<p>- The Red Hat developer program—including the site, blog, and our social media channels—will remain independent and continue to focus on great open source software and culture.<p>- If you’re a member of the developer program, you’ll continue to enjoy free access to Red Hat software downloads, eBooks, events and great content.<p>I’m sure there is some nervousness in the developer community with this announcement. I welcome your questions and will be monitoring this thread and replying to as many as I can over the coming day or so.
I've been through an acquisition in the past where the purchasing company told us that we'd remain independent and that "we like what you're doing, that's why we purchased the company, we don't want to change anything". This was true for roughly 6 months, then sweeping business and cultural changes happened.<p>Do you have any assurances that what you've been told, regarding independence will remain true? If so, are those assurances any more concrete than the initial promise of independence?<p>Not trying to be negative, but telling a company that's been acquired that things will stay the same, seems to be one of the oldest corporate lies in the book.<p>Thoughts? Thanks for your post.
Not a question, but just a suggestion. You should probably have an AMA on reddit. They seem to be more vocal on this deal.<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb0qac/ibm_closes_landmark_acquisition_of_red_hat_for_34/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb0qac/ibm_clo...</a>