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Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by smt88 »

ethbro wrote: post #2

So this is the moment where everyone with a sufficient device / install marketshare decides they need to buy cloud expertise? "Samsung will immediately benefit from having direct access to Joyent’s technology, leadership and talent. Likewise, Joyent will be able to take advantage of Samsung’s scale of business, global footprint, financial muscle and its brand power."

Samsung is (and has been) terrified that their handset business will be slaughtered in the race to the bottom of the hardware industry. They tried to create their own OS to give themselves an edge over other Android manufacturers.

Their fears have come true (and now it's even happening to Apple). Hardware is an incredibly difficult, risky business, and differentiation is now in the services/software arena. That's why Samsung, in particular, needs this acquisition (and others like it).

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by tracker1 »

hitr wrote: post #15

I always thought Microsoft/Google or the likes would acquire Joyent as it is good product fit. Microsoft chose linkedin instead :) For Samsung this is all about IoT .Samsung wants to own both the devices and backend. A good move IMHO

MS already has Azure, with an infrastructure built on their windows core... Not to mention having more services... and while Joyent's Docker story is really nice, MS seems to be heading in a very similar direction with the Windows Subsystem for Linux as Joyent took with SmartOS/Solaris, it's a poor tech fit.

I'm not sure where this will take things with Samsung, likely backend services to support their own "store" on their devices separate from Android. If it's internalized, I only hope they release more of their infrastracture tooling, which is very cool to say the least.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by sintaxi »

Hats off Samsung. You have just acquired a truly world class Engineering team.

Congrats to all my former colleagues who are absolutely amazing at their jobs and wonderful people to work with. Samsung looks like a very good match. Hope the transition goes well.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by Negative1 »

Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how Joyent's acquisition moves Samsung towards their strategic objectives? In other words, how are they going to exploit this technology (and brain gain)?

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by tracker1 »

wvenable wrote: post #17
brotherjerky wrote: post #3

So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)

Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is.

Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working out better in many cases.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by msie »

jankassens wrote: post #19
brotherjerky wrote: post #3

So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

They're definitely doing research for efficient JS on low end devices: - AOT compilation for a subset of JS: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13... - "A JavaScript engine for Internet of Things": http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/

The only thing JS has going for it is it's wide adoption. Basing a new language on it to run on low end devices just seems like a dead-end for me. At least the first link is to a typed subset of JS.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by tracker1 »

ethbro wrote: post #2

So this is the moment where everyone with a sufficient device / install marketshare decides they need to buy cloud expertise? "Samsung will immediately benefit from having direct access to Joyent’s technology, leadership and talent. Likewise, Joyent will be able to take advantage of Samsung’s scale of business, global footprint, financial muscle and its brand power."

Samsung is in a good position to utilize Joyent in Asian markets, better than most cloud providers, and given the "smart" features of most of their devices, and how much they probably feel they're leaving money on the table compared to even Android's Play Store, it makes sense... doesn't mean it'll work... but even if it only applies to Asia and Africa, where they leave the more firm Android in place elsewhere, it could be a significant boost.

I don't expect to see Samsung take on GCE, Azure or AWS directly though... and would be really unsure if I were a Joyent customer right now.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by xorgar831 »

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

This is great news! Would love to see your tech in a datacenter in US central, would use it in a sec. :)
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