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Just enough to pay off their debt
What do you mean? Rancher has raised only $100 million in funding from what I can tell.
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SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
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Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
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> mostly independent Sounds like something Red Hat could say too...
With RH/IBM IBM certainly wants to leverage the RH brand and separate it a bit from the IBM brand, while leveraging customers and technologies across the company. Suse's current owner won't have much synergies between Suse and their real estate business (except that Suse probably rents office space there) You don't do deals like "rent an apartment, get a Suse license for free" Thus Suse, under obersight can likely se…
> You don't do deals like "rent an apartment, get a Suse license for free"
Well maybe they should? That'd certainly sweeten the deal for me.
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#113Another great product acquired by a mediocre behemoth. Here's hoping they can maintain enough independence to continue innovating.
There are many words I'd use to describe SUSE, but neither "mediocre" nor "behemoth" are among them.
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#114What's amusing to me is that Rancher's Support Matrix makes no mention of compatibility with SLES or openSUSE: https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#115Curious about the price. This appears the first significant acquisition of a k8s ecosystem start-up. (Remember the hadoop frenzy) The price might set a sentiment for the entire market segment for a while.
600-700M according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769905
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#116What's amusing to me is that Rancher's Support Matrix makes no mention of compatibility with SLES or openSUSE: https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
That's a link to an old version. The latest versions do officially support SLES. I think it was added in the 2.4 release. https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
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One more good experience. I created an cluster of dedicated servers ( 64 cores, 6TB of SSD storage and 256 GB of RAM, 1 GPU) using Rancher, for about 250 Euros/Month. This would cost at least 2k in a cloud such as AWS. There is a post about how I did with persistent storage here ( https://medium.com/@bratao/state-of-persistent-storage-in-k8... ) It really transformed my company DevOps. I´m VERY happy. If you can, use…
Longhorn synchronously replicates the volume across multiple replicas stored on multiple nodes https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn At first look the numbers in the colourful table near the end, Piraeus/Linstor/DRBD seems 10x faster than Longhorn 0.8. The article goes into great depth of the (a)synchronous replication options of Piraeus, but doesn't mention that Longhorn always does synchronous replication. I wonder…
Longhorn serves a very difference use case than btrfs and CEPH so continued investment makes sense.
Disclaimer: I'm the Rancher Labs CTO
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#118I see it more as acqui-hire. SUSE was missing some savvy technologist in the VP Level.. Sheng_Liang[1] balances it back. Beside him all upper management are ex-SAP with boring strategy, no innovation.. Disclosure: I work for SUSE [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang
Acquihire usually indicates the company failed to make a sustainable business and you are just buying the talent. I can say that is not the case here. Rancher's business was/is phenomenal on all counts. But regardless I look forward to working with you in the future.
Disclosure: Rancher Labs CTO
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
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Over half a billion of USD looks like real value to me, I wish I could make that much with vanilla Kubernetes and Helm charts. Let's be respectful for Rancher's fantastic exit.
They recently when through a Series D round for $75 million, but yet you believe they have half a billion in the bank? They were on their last leg begging for seed money to keep them afloat.
That's a lower estimate of the acquisition based on the info about this deal linked elsewhere in the thread and on the net.
Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
#120What's amusing to me is that Rancher's Support Matrix makes no mention of compatibility with SLES or openSUSE: https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
That's a link to an old version. The latest versions do officially support SLES. I think it was added in the 2.4 release. https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
Weird. That "old version" is where e.g. https://rancher.com/quick-start/ points (if you click on the "supported Linux distribution" link).