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Or possibly it’s completely unrelated and it’s just our brains looking for meaning where there’s none.
If his leaving is unrelated, that would fall under the first possibility of the parent comment, no?
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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
As I said elsewhere, it's not. It's an open source project, under the Linux Foundation umbrella, with all of the good licensing that goes along with that. It has some contributors who are also IBM employees, but to say they're "funded by IBM" is a bit of a stretch.
Speaking for myself, but I do not get any monetary compensation from IBM and I suspect this is true for all of the other non-IBM contributors.
[0]: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha...
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.
They are almost 100 years old which is an accomplishment. I wonder how many they have left. I bet a big chunk of that depends on companies still running AS/400 systems.
(AS/400 is midrange. They are called something else now, I heard. Maybe I-series.)
A lot of those indispensable infrastructure systems we all depend on, such as insurance, income tax, etc., run on mainframes, as they have for decades now.
So don't diss big iron / Big Blue.
I, for one, hope they have many years left, though I guess they could do with improving their corporate culture and business practices some.
IBM is like a juicer that takes out all the delicious flavor out of a fruit. Leaving nothing but a dried beetle husk.
>beetle
TIL that genetic scientists have successfully crossed plants and animals! ;)
But, great comment. Upvoted.
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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,...
Back in the day I read that Eclipse was based on an IBM IDE for Smalltalk called VisualAge, which they ported to VisualAge for Java, which became Smalltalk. A while ago, so some details may be wrong.
Smalltalk (70s) came long before both Java (90s) and Visual Age (80s).
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Still don't get why JetBrains hasn't been folded into the Alphabet family yet.
Probably were waiting to see how the company dealt with the sanctions on Russia first.
"Our incredible journey" ...
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
In earlier years, many of them literally had those words in their final blog posts or emails to their users.
Now some of them seem to have got wise to the Tumblog above, so are changing their words, though not their meaning.
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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,...
Back in the day I read that Eclipse was based on an IBM IDE for Smalltalk called VisualAge, which they ported to VisualAge for Java, which became Smalltalk. A while ago, so some details may be wrong.
A small team of experts set out to take the experiences of the previous years of designing and implementing development environments. The result was Eclipse, a platform designed from the ground up as an integration platform for development tools."
FAQ Where did Eclipse come from?