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Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by ridruejo »

mountainofdeath wrote: post #19
geofft wrote: post #4

I 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?

Plenty of reasons. I've used them to kick the tires on various things without needing to go through the install. Their images are distributed to many cloud providers so it took all of 5 minutes to get going. Now, for long term, high-availability usage, it might not be the best idea but for many users it's "good enough".

Thank you. Our focus right now is expanding the library to support more and more of those production scenarios https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/wordpress-hig...

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by netvarun »

Daniel and Erica are two of the most thoughtful and kindest founders I know. We got to know each other during our yc batch (w13) and it’s been a great privilege to have Daniel as an advisor for my company.

Can’t think of a better match - the company that pioneered the App Store for servers joining the company that pioneered/commercialized virtualization.

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by rongenre »

r0m4n0 wrote: post #18
alexandernst wrote: post #3

So... what happens now with all the employees that have stock options?

Went through an acquisition with Vmware... they converted the stock options to Vmware options that vested at the same rate and were worth the exact same based upon the acquisition price. If they had already vested, they just paid you out. This may depend on the deal though.

I've been through two acquisitions and part of the deal terms if the valuation of the acquiree's shares (which the cap table and liquidation preferences have a huge effect on).

First time my options were converted to options in the acquirer's company.

Second time they turned into RSU's.

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by xmly »

logronoide wrote: post #2

How much?

I guess it is not a huge one because the growth would be a problem. Only installing the application on Cloud is deadly simple these days and is getting simpler. Each major cloud providers have their own app store. And people are moving to SaaS...

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by xmly »

roseway4 wrote: post #8
alexandernst wrote: post #3

So... what happens now with all the employees that have stock options?

They probably exercise their options and make some $ off the transaction.

It depends on which type of options. The exercise date could be fixed or variable. But you could sell the options at its current market if there is a market.

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by stuff4ben »

yahyaheee wrote: post #34

VMware is going to crush with heptio and bitnami teamed up

Yep and they're going to be some big competition to RedHat/IBM in the Kubernetes space. Hence my other post on who is going to acquire Rancher as they're one of the bigger names in the K8s arena. Cisco would be a good one (disclaimer: I work for them but have no knowledge of any acquisition).

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by mountainofdeath »

geofft wrote: post #26
outside1234 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-lev…

Sometimes that is possible but not always. Sometimes it's cost prohibitive for a small use-case like a small business or an instance just a particular team. Sometimes those vendors want long-term contracts. Sometimes the providers themselves are not that great. You would be surprised how much revenue a nice front-end for creation with no operation support can bring (e.g old-school LAMP hosts).

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by netvarun »

netvarun wrote: post #32

Daniel and Erica are two of the most thoughtful and kindest founders I know. We got to know each other during our yc batch (w13) and it’s been a great privilege to have Daniel as an advisor for my company. Can’t think of a better match - the company that pioneered the App Store for servers joining the company that pioneered/commercialized virtualization.

My favorite Bitnami hack -> Using the free EdX Bitnami image[1] to hack a sophisticated LMS (Learning Management System) for your company.

[1] https://bitnami.com/stack/edx

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by notatoad »

geofft wrote: post #4

I 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 don't really even know what bitnami is, but their pre-configured wordpress multisite AMI was pretty useful to me when i was tasked with getting a wordpress server running a little while ago.

sure, i could have done it from scratch, but why bother when i can just grab an image and be done with it?

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