Terrible news. New startups should be buying IBM. Not the other way around.
A startup like Microsoft? lol. IBM is pretty fucking huge still.
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
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Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#132funny how these things are sometimes. technically, couldn't have IBM have hired Mitch when he was still doing vagrant ? and put him in a closet somewhere. Given how Mitch, cranks out products -- could technically been cheaper than 6.4bn but then again IBM ain't hurting for cash.
> technically, couldn't have IBM have hired Mitch when he was still doing vagrant ?
That sort of vision/foresight seems fairly rare, I'd think particularly rare at an IBM type place.
Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#133Terrible news. New startups should be buying IBM. Not the other way around.
Like how Google bought Doubleclick and definitely not the other way around?
Oh if only - it seems like somehow the shittiest culture manages to out survive the other and entrench itself inside the business. I know HN likes to blame this on the stock market forcing short term revenues but I think it goes deeper - the good "culture" employees actively flee these environments.
Boeing acquiring McDonald Douglas is a classic example of this exact scenario: "McDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money."
Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#134Terrible news. New startups should be buying IBM. Not the other way around.
Lmao. Which startup has ~$200B to buy out IBM? Folks are loopy in startup land!
Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#135If this accelerates migration away from Terraform towards a standard, open, IaC platform, then it's a good thing. Something like the JSON version of Terraform that can be generated by different tools, but an open standard instead. Be "interesting" to see what happens to the recently-renamed Terraform Cloud (now Hashicorp Cloud Platform Terraform :eyeroll:) Edited to add: I'm guessing the feature I want added to the t…
So basically you want OpenTofu. It's open source, you can make it do whatever you want, and there's a >0% chance your PRs will get accepted (compared to with HashiCorp)
Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#136so what are the alternatives now? preferably MIT licensed on github
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t understand people’s beef with IBM. They have been responsible for incredible R&D within computing. I even LIKE redhat/fedora! HashiCorp had already been sold out since waaaay before this acquisition and I also don’t understand why their engineers are seen as “special”…
People's beef here with IBM is they don't make shiny phones and laptops and don't create hip jobs where you're paid 500k+ to "change the world" by selling ads or making the 69th messaging app. They just focus on tried and tested boring SW that big businesses find useful and that's not popular on HN which is more startup and disruption focused.
You have obviously never been the victim of IBMs consulting arm. I caution anyone against buying anything IBM now. Absolute nightmare to work with.
Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#138funny how these things are sometimes. technically, couldn't have IBM have hired Mitch when he was still doing vagrant ? and put him in a closet somewhere. Given how Mitch, cranks out products -- could technically been cheaper than 6.4bn but then again IBM ain't hurting for cash.
Simply put, IBM doesn't have the kind of foresight and restraint to do something like that and not fuck it up
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#139Re: IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
#140Well, it was nice while it lasted! HashiCorp always felt like a company made by actual engineers, not "bean counters". Now it will just be another cog in the IBM machine, slowly grinding it down, removing everything attractive, just like RedHat and CentOS. Hopefully this will create a new wave off innovation, and someone will create something to replace the monopoly on IaC that IBM now owns.
I see this as an opportunity. Not to replace HashiCorp's products - OpenTofu and OpenBao are snapping up most of the mindshare for now - but to build another OSS-first developer darling company.
Btw. OpenTofu 1.7.0 is coming out next week, which is the first release that contains meaningful Tofu-exclusive features! We just released the release candidate today.
State encryption, provider-defined functions on steroids, removed blocks, and a bunch more things are coming, see our docs for all the details[0].
We've also had a fun live-stream today, covering the improvements we're bringing to provider-defined functions[1].