After the $33 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM will take over 1,000 people on board of the acquired company in the world’s second-largest technology deal so far.
Along with this, IBM will get clients with high volume transactions that will include Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange once the cash deal to acquire Red Hat Inc is completed.
“The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything about the cloud market,” IBM chairman Ginni Rometty said. “IBM will become the world’s #1 hybrid cloud provider, offering companies the only open cloud solution that will unlock the full value of the cloud for their businesses,” she said.
Red Hat is known for its open culture that has been built by its CEO Jim Whitehurst and imbibed at its offices in India. BSE and NSE also make use of the Red Hat technologies to scale its trading platform.
“Once the integration is in a better place, success stories will be replicated from one region to the other, one vertical to the other. For a while these businesses will run as usual,” Gogia said. “There are bigger hurdles to cross than replicating success stories across countries and verticals.”