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Wasn'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.
True story...At one point in time, IBM bought so many companies, they produced internally an audio CD, sales reps were supposed to listen to on their way to customers visits. Reminding the name of the company, and explaining what each company was about...
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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 know that OpenBao is actually funded by IBM? I'm biased (co-founder) but you should take a look at Infisical for secret management: https://infisical.com
Mitchell, one of the co founders, left HashiCorp in December 2023 [1] It’s either terrible timing (missed on more money?) or he knew about it and decided months in advance that it’s not worth the trouble of staying on (ie, look at the aftermath of the RedHat and IBM acquisition). [1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-depar...
Or possibly it’s completely unrelated and it’s just our brains looking for meaning where there’s none.
It 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…
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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.
I would predict that IBM will cancel Consul and Nomad completely to focus on k8s.
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True story...At one point in time, IBM bought so many companies, they produced internally an audio CD, sales reps were supposed to listen to on their way to customers visits. Reminding the name of the company, and explaining what each company was about...
The internet deserves a ripped copy of that CD.
Microsoft will buy Docker.
Wasn'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,...
A while ago, so some details may be wrong.