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Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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> By 2028, it is projected that generative AI will lead to the creation of 1 billion new cloud-native applications. lmfao what the fuck? The source they reference: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51953724 These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You know it's bad when the only people making money on t…

> These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay.

You aren’t the target market for their “bloviations” - they are targeted at executives, and it isn’t like the executive pays this out of their own pocket, there is a budget and it comes out of the budget. Plus these reports generally aren’t aimed at technical people with significant pre-existing understanding of the field, their audience is more “I’m expected to make decisions about this topic but they didn’t cover it in my MBA”, or even “I need some convincing-sounding talking points to put in my slides for the board meeting, and if I cite an outside analyst they can’t argue with that”

Commonly with these reports a company buys a copy and then it can be freely shared within the company. Also $2,500 is likely just the list price and if you are a regular customer you’ll get a discount, or even find you’ve already paid for this report as part of some kind of subscription

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#22
post #9

> By 2028, it is projected that generative AI will lead to the creation of 1 billion new cloud-native applications. lmfao what the fuck? The source they reference: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51953724 These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You know it's bad when the only people making money on t…

Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags! "Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature flags decouple release from deployment, it provides a good solution for improving software development velocity and business agility," said Jim Mercer, program vice president of IDC Software De…

I'm clearly in the wrong field.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#23
post #5

Investors at IPO lost quite a bit of money...

Yeap we did. I wrote it off around the time of the licence change, just after they decided to ditch the TF Team plan in favour of the utterly ridiculous “Resources Under Management” billing model. I knew the company had lost the plot at that point.

It was made apparent right after the IPO. Our team got a new VP in charge who changed the mantra from practitioner-first to enterprise-first. Soon after they then laid-off anyone not working on enterprise features. It was a sad death of a great company culture. Mitchell left around the same time which, IMO, speaks volumes.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#24
post #9

> By 2028, it is projected that generative AI will lead to the creation of 1 billion new cloud-native applications. lmfao what the fuck? The source they reference: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51953724 These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You know it's bad when the only people making money on t…

Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags! "Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature flags decouple release from deployment, it provides a good solution for improving software development velocity and business agility," said Jim Mercer, program vice president of IDC Software De…

Something I always respected in Americans is their talent for making money from absolutely nothing, providing zero or negative value in the process of doing so. Obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but you have more than a fair share of these people.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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post #5

Investors at IPO lost quite a bit of money...

Yeap we did. I wrote it off around the time of the licence change, just after they decided to ditch the TF Team plan in favour of the utterly ridiculous “Resources Under Management” billing model. I knew the company had lost the plot at that point.

Pricing, and, generally speaking, customer engagement were not their strength

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#28

Sad to see this, but I will again shill for HashiCorp's Nomad as a better alternative to Kubernetes.

I agree up to a certain scale. I've managed a large Nomad/Consul setup (multiple clusters, geographically separated), and it was nothing but a nightmare. I believe fly.io had a similar experience.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#29
post #9

> By 2028, it is projected that generative AI will lead to the creation of 1 billion new cloud-native applications. lmfao what the fuck? The source they reference: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51953724 These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You know it's bad when the only people making money on t…

Every time ChatGPT outputs a Dockerfile, it counts as a cloud native application, right? :)

Did you intend to reference "It's a wonderful life?" When I read your comment I imagine a tiny child in Jimmy Stewart's arms, exclaiming the joys of capitalism ;-)

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

#30
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty good at engineering fast moves. I took a company off of Salesforce in 45 days. VMware servers are even easier to changeout. Never done Terraform though.

terraform is OSS, unless you're using the hosted HCP version (workspaces? I think they're called), which, I've been using terraform heavily and at scale since v0.7 and I have never once thought I needed or would pay for something like that.

Terraform is not OSS, it switched to a source-available license over a year ago.

OpenTofu[0] is the OSS fork though.

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu

Disclaimer: involved with OpenTofu

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