Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

If anyone wants to find out more on what Cormier wants to focus on over the coming years, he did a small QnA: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/get-know-red-hat-president-an...

It will be interesting to see, how his management style is going to impact Red Hat over the coming years. Considering his background and acumen, I feel like there is going to be a stronger focus on tailored services and specific solutions for organizations. They are already very active in the health care and financial industry, so this could be an area they might expand.

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by williamstein » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

Even more interesting

> "Red Hat's CEO for the past 12 years moves to take on the role of IBM president"

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by abrowne » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:05 PM UTC

williamstein wrote: post #5

Even more interesting > "Red Hat's CEO for the past 12 years moves to take on the role of IBM president"

Here's IBM release about that: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-01-30-Arvind-Krishna-Elected-I...

President seems like second-in-command, below CEO. (And the outgoing CEO was both.) Am I understanding that right?

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by texascloud » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

Is this good for IBM?

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by acruns » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

fanatic2pope wrote: post #3

Wow, for the first time in decades I see a sliver of hope for IBM's relevance.

lol!

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by dang » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

williamstein wrote: post #5

Even more interesting > "Red Hat's CEO for the past 12 years moves to take on the role of IBM president"

Has the article buried the lede? Should we make this the title above?

Re: Paul Cormier Replaces Jim Whitehurst as Red Hat CEO

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Post by mathattack » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 7:30 PM UTC

fanatic2pope wrote: post #3

Wow, for the first time in decades I see a sliver of hope for IBM's relevance.

RedHat shares IBM’s model of “change the terms and product definitions every year and audit folks to death who can’t switch providers”

They are going to irrelevance together.