I'm usually not one to make comments on race, but from this picture I found it a bit strange that almost every single person in Bitnami is white (and they're in SF too).
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VMware to Acquire Bitnami
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Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#42How 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...
Correct. We are the top provider of those marketplaces
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
As someone currently running a bitnami wordpress site on aws it's pretty nice being able to SSH in and change whatever you want. Bitnami gives you a reasonable starting point but then you have a lot of flexibility over how you manage the server. Maybe installing everything yourself isn't too hard, but I only run the website because I happen to be the most technically competent person around so it's nice not to have to think about it.
Admittedly I've only tried one managed wordpress service, but it was total garbage in comparison. Debugging basically involved opening a support request because even the most basic tools weren't available.
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting - if I search for "install wordpress on cloud", I get a Google Cloud page (probably because of the major providers, Google Cloud is the only one that has "cloud" in its name) linking to a Google-built turnkey image https://cloud.google.com/wordpress/ . If I specifically search for "install wordpress on aws", AWS's docs tell you to install a Bitnami image https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/la…
Bitnami has worked with all three cloud providers - I was in at least one video meeting with them when I was at Google on the GCP team. (To be clear, I haven't worked for Google in over 4 years and am speaking only for myself here.) I suspect there are Bitnami offerings in Google's marketplace too - most things in that marketplace are built by third parties such as Bitnami, but unlike for Amazon's marketplace Google…
There are indeed Bitnami images in the GCP Marketplace, and they are even used for examples in the code-labs that GCP produces.
It is only somewhat recently that the emphasis in their marketplace is towards to Google-sourced images.
Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami
#45Daniel 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.
Thanks Varun! Likewise, thanks for helping us and giving us technical feedback when we needed it. You have been pioneers and are on a great path yourselves.