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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by wholinator2 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #161
MaintenanceMode wrote: post #147

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You may be joking but this is why we thought Cisco bought Webex back in the day too.

They bought WebEx for the same reason as most of their other acquisitions: vertical integration and diversified interests. It doesn't even have to work well, it just has to be a feature they can advertise, and dumb executives will assume it works and buy it. By the time they've got their hooks into you, you realize it'll take years to remove it. Pretty good cash flow for years before the customer jumps ship. What's f…

Yes honestly webex may be the single worst piece of software I've ever used in my entire life. I remember having to use it for some school projects back in the day and it working slower than a snails pace. You literally could not type anything into the computer because it was so slow it would just lose letters and take 10 seconds or so to update your keypresses. Years later i had to use it for remote work for a company and it was exactly as terrible as it was all those years before. Entirely unusable. I jumped ship before covid and all the wfh stuff happened to a much much better laid out company but i always wonder how anyone managed to accomplish anything for those couple years.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by ilyt »

manicennui wrote: post #289
eigenvalue wrote: post #47

I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…

This comment is incredibly naive. Cisco isn't making acquisition decisions based on your happiness. Splunk's revenue is increasing every year and their losses decrease. It is an incredibly popular tool that complements their products and services well.

Expect entering splunk API key in next generation of their OSes for seamless monitoring

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Post by fragmede »

sanderjd wrote: post #115
davinci123 wrote: post #89

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when you read Hacker News thread - every single one of them feels like the world is falling apart. Splunk is a dud or so everyone here thinks: https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/23/splunk-shares-surge-stro...

This is not actually dissonant! HN is mostly a place where technologists gather, not corporate heads of IT or other business people. This is especially true of the subset of users who actively participate rather than only reading. And it is not unusual in the least for an enterprise product to be wildly profitable but not admired by technologists. Indeed, it's the default; Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, etc. What is interes…

What's interesting is the substance of the complaints of those products. Most of the comments are complaining that Splunk is expensive, but no comments I've seen are complaining that it doesn't work or do as advertised. Same for Oracle DB. It's ungodly expensive, and there are (many) other options out there, but you don't really see complaints that it's not able to perform (after an expensive consultant has had a go at your companies checkbook). The Fedex and Paypals of the world can afford to pay for Cisco/Splunk and Oracle licenses.

What's interesting is things that break this mold, like Microsoft Teams, because that's something that can be disrupted, and thus be successful, by having a better product.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by dingdong33 »

eigenvalue wrote: post #47

I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…

This is most stupid comment I’ve ever read from here.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by radiator »

baq wrote: post #273
Aeolun wrote: post #264

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Presumably you can have a cluster of grepping machines. I wonder how it scales compared to the millions you pay for Splunk.

is your business' core competency building a distributed grep or actually selling useful stuff?

Well, according to what people write in this thread, a distributed grep or some other way to organize a decent central logging system might be a necessary part of the core competency. Because if they buy splunk instead, they might go bankrupt.

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Post by phyzome »

eigenvalue wrote: post #47

I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in S…

I used SumoLogic at my last job, which feels basically the same as Splunk. (Maybe not as fast? No idea on price.) There were times when it was easier to sync 45 GB of logs from S3 down to my laptop and run grep over them than it was to figure out the right arcane syntax and wait for the results. :-)

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Post by trallnag »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #265
grecy wrote: post #261

Somebody had a 45,650% gain in one overnight trade on $SPLK calls. Amazing luck. [1] Someone opened 127 calls for $22,000, and closed them today after the buy-out announcement. A cool way to turn $22,000 into $10,043,000 [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/16oi9an/som...

99.99% that's insider trading.

Will there be consequences?

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by beachy »

com2kid wrote: post #263
DylanDmitri wrote: post #253

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Microsoft’s “request for external license” form is one page long, and has a “how much would this company cost to acquire” section. Or so I’ve heard.

While at Microsoft, a project I was on was acquiring a license for a library and just to be sure of everything, instead of the standard "usage for this product" license, MS acquired a lifetime license to do whatever we wanted with the library. Anyway tl;dr their lead engineer flew out and helped us get everything up and running. :-D

We sold our technology to IBM back in the day (EJB era) and the deal involved a "break glass" option where they could pay a pre-agreed fee at any time if they ever needed the ability to modify our source code.
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