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IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
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Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#82Wasn'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.
I’m not happy about this but my silver linings are:
1) At least Ellison doesn’t end up with it
2) Consul should tend to bring down the aggregate complexity of IBM solutions just a little bit.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#83Wasn'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.
Jumped on the Java boat alongside Sun and Oracle, pivoting from Smalltalk into Java, contributions to the Linux kernel since 2000's, collaborations with Apple and Sony, helped porting Go toolchain into their micro and mainframes, acquired Red-Hat thus indirect contributions to all major Linux projects that Red-Hat works on,...
They did a lot of different experiments with JIT as well, though I don’t know how much made it into other toolchains. In particular J9 was a sort of moral equivalent of PyPy.
On the downside they are materially responsible/accomplices to the crimes that are J2EE and XML ALL THE THINGS.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#84Ignore
Why would IBM buy Canonical when they have RedHat already???
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#85I hope that's not true (or falls through). I have a good friend that works for HashiCorp. He's 42, and will undoubtedly be on the chopping block.
If he's on the tech side he should be fine.
IBM is loaded with boomers with amazing jobs and pension plans that they're eager to dump if they can. They seem to want to keep good tech people while dumping the sweet deal boomers and non-tech where possible.
t. IBMer
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#86Reuters references a WSJ article. That article (gift link) is IBM Nears Deal for Cloud-Software Provider -- https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-deal-for-cloud-...
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jumped on the Java boat alongside Sun and Oracle, pivoting from Smalltalk into Java, contributions to the Linux kernel since 2000's, collaborations with Apple and Sony, helped porting Go toolchain into their micro and mainframes, acquired Red-Hat thus indirect contributions to all major Linux projects that Red-Hat works on,...
They did a lot of different experiments with JIT as well, though I don’t know how much made it into other toolchains. In particular J9 was a sort of moral equivalent of PyPy. On the downside they are materially responsible/accomplices to the crimes that are J2EE and XML ALL THE THINGS.
I don't begrudge them XML even if I don't like how it looks. Json still doesn't have a matching schema story.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#88It is hard to figure out what IBM is anymore
and their profile /strategy is.
They make totally awesome mainframes, which are spectacularly expensive and tends to be existing customers updating than new companies buying them. All the research and engineering that they put into the mainframes is astounding. They remain a critical part of a vast number of financial transactions in the world.
I keep hoping companies will discover that they are really great for a few things But they are certainly not fashionable, and it does not appear that IBM has much interest in making them fashionable.
They have the iSeries which I believe is the successor to the AS/400. That was one amazing and utterly reliable machine. But again, that was 20 years ago or more since I touched them. But they are certainly not fashionable, and it does not appear that IBM has much interest in making them fashionable.
Then they have a research division that used to do great things. They may still be I just have not followed it much. I do know that they are investing a lot into research about Quantum chips. (or at least I think so)
DB/2 used to be a great database system. It may still be, but I have had no exposure to it in over a decade. It does not show up often in DBMS comparisons. But it is certainly not fashionable, and it does not appear that IBM has much interest in making it fashionable.
They have their cloud services But it is certainly not fashionable, and it does not appear that IBM has much interest in making it fashionable or ???? I know they are selling hybrid solutions for people with mainframe to run some things in the IBM cloud.
They have at least 4 operating systems. z/OS, AIX and RedHat (well that one is quite different) and whatever the iSeries run these days.
The must have a research park somewhere that invents new was to do licensing and making things even more expensive. Possibly some cooperating with Oracle :p
They have whatever their consulting arms is called now. I have been terribly disappointed with the consultants i have interacted with from there but I may have been unlucky.
They have RedHat and now (maybe) Hasicorp.
RedHat+Hasicorp goes into the cloud? + adds leverage to their consulting business.
What is the overall strategy though. They have so many different things but they dont seem to push them in a collective way into something new and wonderful.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#89Wasn'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.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit. Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here: https://opentofu.org/ and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here: https://openbao.org/
> IBM killed Centos for profit.
That process began happening long before the IBM acquisition when Red Hat hired Karanbir Singh (CentOS's maintainer) in 2014.
Re: IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
#90Wasn'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.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit. Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here: https://opentofu.org/ and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here: https://openbao.org/
Do you even realize OpenBao is an IBM initiative?