This seemed like an inevitability given the reliance on enterprise customers and the move to maximise the revenue from Terraform with the recent license change. They have made a round of layoffs, so at least some cost saving has already been done to make it more appealing for a sale. The main challenge from an acquisition like this will be maintaining the community around terraform providers, if that drops off, i'm not sure there will be as many developers coming into the hashicorp ecosystem.
IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
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Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#42So... was this the cause of the whole Terraform licensing change kerfuffle?
Perhaps more importantly, Vault.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#43Wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure. Say what you will about big blue, they repeatedly seem to know who to acquire in order to buy themselves another 10 years of relevance.
They are almost 100 years old which is an accomplishment. I wonder how many they have left. I bet a big chunk of that depends on companies still running AS/400 systems.
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#45At least we still have OpenTofu. I wonder how the rest is going to get forked.
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#48At least we still have OpenTofu. I wonder how the rest is going to get forked.
And OpenBao's fork of Vault. There are non-IBM companies on the TSC.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#49At least we still have OpenTofu. I wonder how the rest is going to get forked.
Ironically, IBM is behind the Vault fork (OpenBao). Way to negotiate!
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