At least it wasn't Oracle
I used to work for Jet.com, which was acquired by Walmart, and I stayed there for about two years after the acquisition.<p>It was an OK place to work, and they gave Jet some level of autonomy, but I left when I read that Walmart wants to start &quot;integrating&quot; their stuff ours, which in my case was a lot of Java crap that was clearly at least 10 years old.<p>I doubt that my experience is atypical with this.  Big companies like to buy smaller ones, but don&#x27;t like having two versions of one thing, and very often they&#x27;ll view their original version of something as superior to the one they just purchased.  In the case of Walmart, I think they bought Jet exclusively for the name.<p>I&#x27;m hoping that IBM is smart enough to sit back and let Redhat do their thing.  I don&#x27;t really want Redhat to become something bloated and horrible like WebSphere.