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They probably exercise their options and make some $ off the transaction.
How so? They don't have any actual stock. They have options to stock.
exercise the option = buy the stock
VMware to Acquire Bitnami
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Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
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Lots of small business as well. Want to deploy to the cloud but lack the skill set to manage a real server.
Is that not a disaster waiting to happen.
Not in the hypothetical world where Bitnami reaches through the connection and manages the “server” embedded in the software for them. Like Ubuntu LTS with automatic security updates + kernel patches turned on, but at the individual-application level.
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Usually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.
I've never heard the term 'double cliff' before, can you explain?
I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.
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#25I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?
I agree with you, additionally I have tried several bitnami images (including wordpress, phsbricator, magento among others) and the config is always a mess. You don't find things where they should be and it is very hard to update stuff.
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Is that not a disaster waiting to happen.
The alternative is that they install it themselves, which sounds even riskier.
Isn't the alternative that they find a SaaS company to do it for them? Everything from WordPress to GitLab to Jenkins to ELK has good we'll-run-it-for-you vendors. (Bitnami also offers things like memcached and kube-state-metrics and language runtimes, but I'm not sure how you manage to make sure of them without having enough expertise to install software yourself. You can definitely find vendors to do the higher-level task for you, if you're in the market for something like that.)
Or that they hire someone with the relevant expertise, but sure, we can assume that they're not going to do that for the purposes of discussion.
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#27I wonder when Rancher will get acquired? Its just a matter of time. And VMWare seems to be buying a lot of these types of companies.
I think many of these container orchestration adjacent companies large and small are standing up straight hoping for an acquisition in general — I don't think it's going to happen for all of them.
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#28Congrats VMWare
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#29My experience with Bitnami images was that it was very quick and easy to get up and running but trying to configure configuration on the server was pretty difficult because of how many bitnami configuration files there were spread out everywhere and not where you'd expect them
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#30My experience with Bitnami images was that it was very quick and easy to get up and running but trying to configure configuration on the server was pretty difficult because of how many bitnami configuration files there were spread out everywhere and not where you'd expect them
Yes, this is something that we need to continue to improve. Part of the challenge is that there is a tradeoff with making something "native" vs. consistent across MacOS, Linux, Windows and different formats (containers, VMs, etc)