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Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Railsify »

meddlepal wrote: post #18
Railsify wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

I'm not a millionaire but I play golf and belong to a prestigious country club (US Open and Ryder Cup host) with plenty of millionaires in the membership list. Sitting at the bar over the years and chatting with these folks that don't need to work a lot of them do work for a handful of reasons: 1. They're bored and want some challenge. 2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids. 3. They like making mo…

I'm golfing Saturday, at a local public course.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by socialist_coder »

whateveracct wrote: post #17
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #16

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They may be great, but are they 7.8 billion dollars of great? For comparison, Hanes (the underwear people) has a 6 billion market cap and Dish Network is 18 billion.

They charge $15/host and their service is good enough that you can often say that's well worth it, so I think so.

The $15 a host thing was only true before they started charging for custom metrics. Now they want you to add APM to your plan and it's much more expensive.

I'm transitioning off of DataDog right now because of this change. My contract came up for renewal and they want to charge me a TON more because of my custom metrics.

All my custom metrics do is track the time of each request. It's basically APM but I've had it setup for years, way before they rolled out APM. So yeah, $15 a host would be awesome if that's actually what the price was. But why would you pay $15 a host and only get CPU/memory charts? That stuff is built into AWS... So I'm not even sure what the $15 gets you that is actually useful.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by abvdasker »

petre wrote: post #20

Can't Cisco buy DDOG shares if they really want control of the company?

For most companies it's either very difficult or unattractive to acquire a controlling stake without negotiating a deal with the company's management. The alternative is a hostile takeover which requires enticing shareholders with above-market tender offers. Hostile takeovers become borderline impossible if a company like Datadog has implemented a poison pill as part of their shareholder rights plan. Yet another alternative is a creeping takeover wherein Cisco would try to gain a controlling interest by gradually buying shares on the open market, but this can take a very long time.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Swizec »

Railsify wrote: post #15
aggie wrote: post #9

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A core team of pre-millionaires won't necessarily, or even likely, work the same as a core team of post-millionaires.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

> Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

That's fun for a week, maybe even a month, then you'd get bored. Humans need purpose and we like structure. Complete freedom terrifies and unsettles us.

Source: All my life I wanted nothing but to have enough cash in bank to take a year off and do whatever. When I got it ... at first I panicked, then I considered the boundless possibilities, then realized I have no idea what to do with that much money, put it in index funds, and went back to work. Now it sits there as a source of comfort and potential.

A modest fuck you fund that makes me feel better and gives me that sense of Oh yeah, if I stop liking my situation, I can afford to do whatever I want for a year or two without compromising my lifestyle

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by winrid »

meddlepal wrote: post #18
Railsify wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

I'm not a millionaire but I play golf and belong to a prestigious country club (US Open and Ryder Cup host) with plenty of millionaires in the membership list. Sitting at the bar over the years and chatting with these folks that don't need to work a lot of them do work for a handful of reasons: 1. They're bored and want some challenge. 2. They can't stand being near their wife, husband or kids. 3. They like making mo…

Responsibility gives meaning to your life too

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by lizthegrey »

socialist_coder wrote: post #22
whateveracct wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They charge $15/host and their service is good enough that you can often say that's well worth it, so I think so.

The $15 a host thing was only true before they started charging for custom metrics. Now they want you to add APM to your plan and it's much more expensive. I'm transitioning off of DataDog right now because of this change. My contract came up for renewal and they want to charge me a TON more because of my custom metrics. All my custom metrics do is track the time of each request. It's basically APM but I've had it se…

What're you moving off to, out of curiosity?

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Bombthecat »

nodesocket wrote: post #12

I am very keen on picking up some $DDOG shares tomorrow when it IPO'S. As part of my DevOps consultancy I recommend DataDog to nearly all my clients. They check all the boxes in one unified platform: [X] Server / cloud resource monitoring and alerting [ https://www.datadoghq.com/dashboarding/ ] [X] Logging [ https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/ ] [X] APM (application performance) [ https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/ ] […

What do you think about sysdig?

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by romski »

ako wrote: post #24

Interesting since Cisco already owns AppDynamics. Apparently they think or even know AppDynamics is not good enough to compete with Datadog. Very bad news for AppDynamics.

I interviewed there a year ago - the person on the phone told me I was an idiot for using Cassandra when I should be using HBase like they were; ok, lol

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Bombthecat »

lizthegrey wrote: post #27
socialist_coder wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The $15 a host thing was only true before they started charging for custom metrics. Now they want you to add APM to your plan and it's much more expensive. I'm transitioning off of DataDog right now because of this change. My contract came up for renewal and they want to charge me a TON more because of my custom metrics. All my custom metrics do is track the time of each request. It's basically APM but I've had it se…

What're you moving off to, out of curiosity?

I don't know where he moved to, but maybe lock into sisdig or netdata. Or if it is api specific lock into kong and grafana.

Or if you realy want to dig deep into api data (like how often is send a credit request with which data) look into axway decisions insight.

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