I can't really speak to business or HR questions. My role is focused on our relationship with developers. What I can say...We are a distinct entity in IBM and the only person reporting to an IBMer is Jim (our CEO) who now reports to Ginny (IBM CEO). We retain control over our associates. That said, the actions taken in the coming months and years will provide the real proof.
Speaking to integration. In terms of the Red Hat developer tools portfolio (which is ~15 tools and plugins), and a mix of Red Hat supported products and upstream open source projects - there is no change to our roadmap.
We are committed to continuing to invest deeply in open source as we have from Red Hat's inception.
We are going to continue to publish and support IDE plugins for VS Code [1], JetBrains [2] and Eclipse [3] - even if they compete with IBM plugins.
We will also continue to offer CodeReady Workspaces for the OpenShift Kubernetes platform [4]. I expect this will be of increasing interest to IBM customers as they adopt OpenShift more aggressively. The open source upstream project for this offering (Eclipse Che [5]) is also an area that has seen increasing IBM participation over the past year.
In open source communities there continues to be collaboration around the Eclipse Foundation's Cloud Development portfolio [6]. Be on the lookout for some announcements here in the coming months.
Similarly there's interest from IBM in continuing to create open source language servers that adhere to the Language Server Protocol [7] that the Red Hat tools could consume.
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/redhat
[2] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12030-openshift-connect...
[3] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/user/jtools/listings
[4] https://developers.redhat.com/products/codeready-workspaces/...
[5] https://github.com/eclipse/che
[6] https://www.eclipse.org/ecd/
[7] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...