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  • The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.

    Especially since they are talking about all the money they will save cutting jobs.

    Based on the time frames for this, I’m going to guess by the end of 2026 the engineering team will shrink, followed by a 2027 announcement of merging departments for better management, and RedHat basically be just IBM entirely by 2028.

    If I still had any servers on RH for work, I’d be planning my moves right about now (personally I started the shift after the 2023 announcement on source code availability, finalized the last three servers in June actually).

    Really quite a shame to see how things have changed.

    Anyway, I’d suspect there are at least a couple years left before its a mess.



  • Legal, hr, finance, and accounting is now IBM, and IBM has noted job cuts as part of the cost savings in its profit forecasting.

    Engineering, product, sales, and marketing are not making any changes - yet.

    I would note that IBM is also now pushing its “enhanced AI” support over speaking with actual people, unless you have an upgraded support tier. Basic support tier can also no longer escalate cases.

    I would agree in not needing to rush anywhere, but I would have to say this looks like the start of enshittification for sure.