Red Hat Exec Says IBM Must Keep the Open-Source Culture Untouched

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Bill-Peter went on to state that it’s critical for HP to allow Red Hat to operate independently, and while the new leadership could dictate the new direction of the company, it shouldn’t be substantially different from where it’s heading to today.

“They want to keep Red Hat as the independent Switzerland - guess where I'm from? What this means is if they were to just make us a part of IBM, a lot of our clients or partners - like Amazon or Google -they wouldn't collaborate with us on the next open hybrid cloud. That's why being that Switzerland of IT for Red Hat is really important.”

While IBM hasn’t yet outlined its plans for Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO, said in a statement announcing the takeover in late October that IBM could help the company “accelerate the impact of open source” given its resources.

Red Hat has long been a target for tech giants, and while the IBM takeover took many by surprise, people familiar with the matter revealed many years ago that talks over a potential acquisition involved several other companies, including software firm Microsoft and Google. [...]

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