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Re:Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to e... by tmaly on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:46AM (#35688290)
What will happen to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product if they cut all the knowledgeable grey beards?
Re:Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to e... by ok123456 on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:42AM (#35689045)
They made them redundant already by rewriting everything in systemd.
Re:Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to e... by phkahler on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:32AM (#35688905)
>> What will happen to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product if they cut all the knowledgeable grey beards?

Inefficiency, which will spread to customers, who will then need more products and services?

Re:Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to e... by edgyquant on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:12PM (#35689486)
They won’t do that
Re:Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to e... by midoridensha on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:59AM (#35697741)
The product will degrade and customer service will worsen, but all RH's institutional/government customers will stick with them anyway because they have policies mandating the use of RH. This will cause RH to be more profitable, and their execs to get bigger bonuses.

It is possible (but certainly not guaranteed) that eventually, after years, some competitor to RH will arise and get enough of these customers to switch to make a real dent in RH's profitability, but by then the execs will be long-gone and cruising on their yachts.