In October 2018 Cringely predicted that ‘Redhat would take over IBM’. He wasn’t QUITE right, but as IBM CEO Arvind Krishna shakes up leadership team on first day at the helm it is interesting to see that though he didn’t get the top job - boy is he getting a large slice of pie.
”The AI component of the strategy is being entrusted to newly appointed IBM President Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst was previously CEO of Red Hat. In his new role, the executive will head IBM Strategy as well as the Cloud and Cognitive Software unit that Krishna led before taking over the top post.