THE PAST few days in these forums were rather telling. I've been watching these closely for about 4 months and spend dozens of hours assessing the situation, based on insider accounts (also some former IBMer with contacts inside the company).

"...we must conclude that the current trajectory is towards an obsolete IBM, which in turn spells trouble for Red Hat as well."While the media issues a bunch of cloudwashing fluff such as this there's no mention of this year's layoffs or the ongoing exodus (Google News shows not even a single article). It is a suppressed subject that we wrote about before.

Having spent dozens of hours researching these RAs, based on one of the most active forums/boards in thelayoff.com (there are many insiders there -- something that we've mentioned here in passing before) and lots of blogs/sites of Red Hat and IBM, we must conclude that the current trajectory is towards an obsolete IBM, which in turn spells trouble for Red Hat as well. I saw many of the very same patterns in S.u.S.E. under Novell, which was at one point headed by a former IBMer (Hovsepian), who sold out to Microsoft and then sold the company. ⬆

Morale is low, the flagship products were sold (e.g. to Lenovo)