Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M

Post by expertentipp » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

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I'd rather live in Germany than Spain.

Once you are financially secure, living in Germany makes no sense. Shitty weather, the insane apartment situation in any major city, shitty services(any company with Deutsche in front - Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Wohnen), the beurocratic burden in your day to day live - everything takes forever to get done here. Spain is not perfect, but oh my god is Germany overrated

Post by athrun » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:21 AM UTC

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EU capital markets are underdeveloped compared to those in the US. European banks are too small, and mostly national. More importantly, the marketplaces are too small and too national. European stock exchanges are a joke compared to NASDAQ and NYSE. There's also the small detail of pension funds generally being forbidden from investing in stocks. That's the money that's fuelling SV, if my impression is correct. This…

None of this seems correct. Europe has more than a few multi-national, global banks. Also, my own pension is invested in the stock market. That's the norm for employer-provided pensions.

Post by hgq » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

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Once you are financially secure, living in Germany makes no sense. Shitty weather, the insane apartment situation in any major city, shitty services(any company with Deutsche in front - Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Wohnen), the beurocratic burden in your day to day live - everything takes forever to get done here. Spain is not perfect, but oh my god is Germany overrated

> Once you are financially secure, living in Germany makes no sense. How so? > Shitty weather To me, constant heat and sunshine is shitty weather. I prefer a temperate/boreal climate. I find it far more pleasant. > the insane apartment situation in any major city So just like every other major city currently. > shitty services They are going to have to be extraordinarily shitty to be worse than what I have already in…

Post by sewen » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC

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Why did they make this acquisition? It looks like data Artisans provides tools for managing Apache Fink deployments. Is it more than that?

It's an aqui-hire, i guess. Not great for Data Artisans customers. Alibaba are flexing their muscles. Google have their own data platform. We want to show we have our own too - they see it as competitive advantage. Alibaba are not an enterprise software company, like Data Artisans were.

Post by sewen » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:47 AM UTC

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Great product. It should have happened last week, then we truly could have said that all Enterprise Apache Open Software products died of the AWS plague in 2018: Hadoop is gone with Cloudera/Hortonworks merging, Kafka with Confluent's new license covering their ecosystem of tooling. Databricks now have their own Spark runtime, which will get more TLC than Apache Spark. On top of Apache, Mongo, Neo4J, Redis Labs aband…