Will not meddle with RedHat’s independence: IBM’s Rometty

Ending weeks of speculation, IBM has announced that it will let RedHat, the open source solutions company that it acquired for $34 billion, to work independently.

Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, made this clear while speaking at the keynote session at the RedHat Summit here.

“RedHat will stay independent. I want them to be successful,” she said, while interacting with Jim Whitehurst, CEO, RedHat.

Open source software developers, vendors, representatives of IT firms that work on RedHat solutions, and other stakeholders gathered here for the three-day annual conference.