As a very happy user of PiCloud, I'm sad to see it go. It is a shame they had such A-list VC's (Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Greylock Partners), who don't have an interest in just a good solid business. They only wanted a huge, home run. I've been looking around for a good replacement, and there is a gap. PiCloud really had three components. The first was an ability to run code with arbi…
I'm curious why you think it won't re-appear within the Dropbox infrastructure. Do you think they bought it for internal use only? Do you expect the open source pickup by Multyvac to be a bust?
I think if you read the announcement carefully, it is the standard aqui-hire wording. Dropbox isn't remotely in the same space as PiCloud, and doesn't want to be. They simply "acquired" PiCloud to get their team of developers, which is why they're fine with open sourcing PiCloud. They won't even be using it internally.
the team has decided to join Dropbox...
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