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There are still some who have difficulty appreciating that the Linux
world is much bigger than Red Hat. Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html>
is another reminder. Red Hat may well be the most profitable part of
IBM left (which is why its troubles are having such an outsize impact
on the company as a whole), but in the whole Open Source scheme of
things, it is but one of many players.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

There are still some who have difficulty appreciating that the Linux
world is much bigger than Red Hat. Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html>
is another reminder. Red Hat may well be the most profitable part of
IBM left (which is why its troubles are having such an outsize impact
on the company as a whole), but in the whole Open Source scheme of
things, it is but one of many players.

The mainframe department brings in a lot of cash too, and
their margins are huge. But yes, RH is probably the only
other area that is making $.

But I am sure IBM will fix the RH profit problem eventually :)
I heard have started integrating some RH people into IBM
proper.
--
[t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
- Paraphrasing Star Wars
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On 11/5/25 16:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

There are still some who have difficulty appreciating that the Linux
world is much bigger than Red Hat. Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html>
is another reminder. Red Hat may well be the most profitable part of
IBM left (which is why its troubles are having such an outsize impact
on the company as a whole), but in the whole Open Source scheme of
things, it is but one of many players.

IBM has always kept many irons in the proverbial fire.

Don't expect it to go bust anytime soon.
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 00:57:37 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

The mainframe department brings in a lot of cash too, and their margins
are huge.

Doesn’t seem like it, though, does it? Remember the layoffs are the result of the Red Hat division growing by only 14% instead of the predicted 16%.

If that can have such a great impact, then the mainframe division can’t be big enough to offset such a small hiccup of a couple of percentage points
any more.
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On 11/5/25 16:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

There are still some who have difficulty appreciating that the Linux
world is much bigger than Red Hat. Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html>
is another reminder. Red Hat may well be the most profitable part of
IBM left (which is why its troubles are having such an outsize impact
on the company as a whole), but in the whole Open Source scheme of
things, it is but one of many players.

Hmmmmmm ... is the REAL reason less to do with "slower
RHEL growth" but more "AI growth" ???

Left to themselves, the big corps would have one CEO
with a big paycheck and NO humans anywhere else. Really
looks to be heading that way now.

Of course disemployed humans can't BUY your stuff - but
that never seems to be figured into the equation .....

Oh, GOTTA have the CEO ... Machiavellian politics.
The primary stockholders MUST have someone to blame
if anything goes wrong :-)

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On 11/5/25 19:57, John McCue wrote:

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

There are still some who have difficulty appreciating that the Linux
world is much bigger than Red Hat. Here
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html>
is another reminder. Red Hat may well be the most profitable part of
IBM left (which is why its troubles are having such an outsize impact
on the company as a whole), but in the whole Open Source scheme of
things, it is but one of many players.

The mainframe department brings in a lot of cash too, and
their margins are huge. But yes, RH is probably the only
other area that is making $.

But I am sure IBM will fix the RH profit problem eventually :)
I heard have started integrating some RH people into IBM
proper.

IBM has proven to be versatile, a consistent player.
It's into many area of sci/tech/computing either up
front or as a background supporter.

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