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Red Hat is buying Ansible

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Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

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post #3

Wonder what caused such a high valuation. They definitely didnt seem to have enough revenues to justify it.

I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).

What are you buying when the technology is open source?

Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

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post #5

Ansible creator, founder and CTO Michael DeHaan previously worked at Red Hat where he helped build Cobbler.

FYI- A lot of Ansible employees have a Red Hat past. The lead developer James Cammarata has, and is also the current Cobbler maintainer.

Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).

What are you buying when the technology is open source?

The dev team?

Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).

What are you buying when the technology is open source?

The team and the existing user base

Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).

What are you buying when the technology is open source?

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Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

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Supposedly a > $100mm deal. Both companies are already headquartered in N.C., and Ansible has a ton of momentum in the RHEL and OpenStack arenas, so it would make sense to pull the project into the fold. One thing I wonder is how much the project's priorities would shift away from (if at all) anything non-RHEL-centric.

Hopefully not too much, super heavy Ansible + Ubuntu user here.

Re: Red Hat is buying Ansible

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Interesting! Ansible is great technology. Not as mature as Puppet or Chef, but it's getting there. However Red Hat is currently heavily pushing (what I understand to be) their own fork of Puppet inside Satellite 6. So quite a few RHEL customers in the process of rolling out the latest Satellite is probably going to want to hedge their investment in it. Perhaps there is some Red Hatter here who could comment?
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