Red Hat has been a very atypical approach. There has been some swapping of teams back and forth but, as far as I can tell (been out of it for a while), Red Hat is still quasi-independent. Still lots of changes (probably most notably because of a lot of growth) but strategic Red Hat areas still seem to be pretty independent.
Broadly independent but filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat. While this has been true of rank and file for years, recently it’s true on the c-suite.
Was probably truer of middleware than other areas. (Which I gather is largely going over to IBM.) Linux had a very significant DEC legacy. OpenShift was essentially greenfield from a startup acquisition (that got totally rewritten for Kubernetes anyway) and I'm not sure I would characterize people in that area as broadly coming from any particular large vendor.
> Red Hat is still quasi-independent. Still lots of changes (probably most notably because of a lot of growth) but strategic Red Hat areas still seem to be pretty independent.
