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		mroche on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kuber... Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM, not acquired and absorbed. It is very much its own thing within the company as a whole.

krimeo on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

I really thought it was a merger. Is Red Hat still a seperate legal entity?

smarterclayton on Oct 16, 2020 | [–]

Yes, separate legal entity, combined financial entity (although I know little about the financial details).

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