Red Hat may need to reduce its workforce due to the slowdown or discontinuation of certain middleware software development.
Reporters have viewed an internal email from Mark Little mentioning that maintenance and development of several company products will be halted, slowed down, or "rightsized."
This is part of our strategic realignment, where we are assessing the suitability of the Hat's offerings for our long-term goals. Although double-digit growth is the desired outcome, there may be a new round of covert layoffs underway. We are sure that this has nothing to do with Red Hat's decision to keep McKinsey & Company a few months earlier.
Red Hat's Optaplanner build will be discontinued, even though it was announced in January last year. The company stated that Optaplanner 8 will be discontinued in March. They also mentioned that there are no plans for Optaplanner 9. The code is still around as an Apache project, and some of the team already forked it as Timefold.
For the chop, there's also the Red Hat Spring Boot. This is the Hat version of the Spring Boot application, used to create independent enterprise Java projects with the Spring framework.
Red Hat Data Grid, Red Hat 3scale API Management, and Red Hat Process Automation Manager will continue to be maintained, but with slower development and release. Expect maintenance and bug fixes, but not new versions of these.
The main group of initiatives is the projects that will be adjusted to match current business needs by reducing the number of associates working on them. Sounds menacing.
