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Youtube, Instagram.
Why YouTube? It was definitely worse pre-acquisition, but so did the rest of the internet. Do you think it could've gone under without Google's capital?
Cisco Acquires Splunk
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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#112I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…
It sounds like you reinvented the concept of a loghost with a database.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#113apropos of nothing splunk is the most user hostile UI I have ever had the extreme displeasure of being forced to use
I guess you've never used SignalFX?
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#114To pile onto the Splunk "love" going on here. Splunk is one of those systems that's too "powerful" for small use-cases, but too expensive for the ones it's really designed for. Anecdote, I once worked with a client that really wanted to get Splunk, but produced so much network traffic that the discounted annual costs were more than the entire budget for the rest of the organization combined. That's staff, the buildin…
Similar problems with effectively modeling weather or finding the very smallest of things, there isn't enough compute power or even energy in the universe.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#115Somebody: Splunk has exorbitant prices and locked-in enterprise customers! Cisco: Oh these guys are just like us. Better buy them up. We know this business.
when you read Hacker News thread - every single one of them feels like the world is falling apart. Splunk is a dud or so everyone here thinks: https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/23/splunk-shares-surge-stro...
This is not actually dissonant!
HN is mostly a place where technologists gather, not corporate heads of IT or other business people. This is especially true of the subset of users who actively participate rather than only reading.
And it is not unusual in the least for an enterprise product to be wildly profitable but not admired by technologists. Indeed, it's the default; Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, etc.
What is interesting is to look for examples of things that break this mold, that are both profitable and mostly admired. Frankly, I can't think of any... All the ones I can think of were out-competed and either acquired and ruined or just run out of business. Maybe RedHat is the closest example... I'm not sure though.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
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Are medium-sized customers valuable to Splunk? In sales we call this "Ideal Customer Profile." Why do I want a customer with less money to spend if I have a product with enough capability for the gigantic money-is-no-object customers?
I work in a 100+ year old giga bank, systemic in the country it comes from, in their Hong Kong investment bank branch. We loved Splunk, we invested quite a bit in it both for technical monitoring and business intelligence. After a while the price went so high we cut it all, moved to kdb/tableau/elk/whatever crappier system that cost less. Money is ALWAYS an object and Splunk makes sure to dig a hole deep enough for e…
Spot on. I also work in a 100+ year old gigantic corporation with big money and we are also moving off Splunk due to rising costs. Enterprise customers do not just pay whatever the sales folks ask for. Splunk is dead growth wise if they don’t fix their pricing.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
when you read Hacker News thread - every single one of them feels like the world is falling apart. Splunk is a dud or so everyone here thinks: https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/23/splunk-shares-surge-stro...
Everything on HN should be taken with a big ol' bag of salt. To do otherwise will cause you to miss out on both employment and investment opportunities you won't find elsewhere.
what other resources do you read?
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#118Tens of billions? I hope sales justify those numbers ... or we are still in a bubble.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#119To pile onto the Splunk "love" going on here. Splunk is one of those systems that's too "powerful" for small use-cases, but too expensive for the ones it's really designed for. Anecdote, I once worked with a client that really wanted to get Splunk, but produced so much network traffic that the discounted annual costs were more than the entire budget for the rest of the organization combined. That's staff, the buildin…
> That's staff, the building, equipment, power, water, everything...the estimated Splunk cost was more than that.
Wow, it's THAT expensive?
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they price-out medium customers so mind-share decreases
It's better -because it's easier to scale- to sell a single 1M$ license than selling a thousand 1000$ licenses.
That's fine as long as your product stays competitive.
But as you lose the smaller and middle-range customers, you're also missing on the trends of the market, while getting shaken up by the big players you can't afford to say no to. If one of your whales needs feature Y, no matter how exotic you think it could be, you'll have to implement Y, bloating your product for the rest of your clients.
And while you're doing that, smaller competitors slowly creep up, eating up the bottom of you market, until you're stuck in a niche.