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Samsung Acquires Joyent
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Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent
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Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent. Please, please continue to develop your public cloud offerings. Having options other that the myopic, me-too, feature-matching, monoculture that is AWS/GCE/Azure is incredibly important. That said, for my use profile, you guys need to work on your price competitiveness. Hopefully Samsung will inject the necessary cash for economies-of-scale.
> Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent. I'm sure they will. They are a top contributor to open source: http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/
Why is your link relevant? Joyent = Illumos, which is a fork of open-Solaris, not Linux at all.
Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent
#73Joyent raised over $125M in venture [0], and no mention of a price? Wonder how the employees faired in this...
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#74Hey, maybe Joyent can finally afford to refund the people who supported it when it was textdrive and then went back on their word!
Snarky I know but I'm still bitter about how it was all handled..
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent. I'm sure they will. They are a top contributor to open source: http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/
Why is your link relevant? Joyent = Illumos, which is a fork of open-Solaris, not Linux at all.
The point being that Samsung give a shit about contributing to open-source projects at all.
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#76I'm sorry but how is this a good fit? What is the synergy here? This particular sentence is incredibly vapid:
"By bringing these two companies together we are creating the opportunity to develop and bring to market vertically integrated mobile and IoT services and solutions that deliver extraordinary simplicity and value to our customers."
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#77Congrats Bryan.
If anybody deserve it, it's you guys.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked with two project managers from their US team STA (Samsung Technologies America). One was OK. The other one was a fucking psychopath. I'm talking about needlessly and viciously backstabbing all in range. Totally unbelievable. Never seen anything like it, and god help me I hope I never see it again. Later, I visited their HQ in Korea and met some of their Indian and Korean development teams. They were competen…
Then you should see the japanese way of working, it's also quite fun! I believe this is common in most of asia. I have worked in China and it's not quite different at all from what you're saying.
My experience in Shanghai/Suzhou is very different fortunately. Not very long days if not needed, high salaries and quite a bit of freedom. Very Western feel while we work with Chinese companies with no Western employees.
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#79Forgive 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)?
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#80Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not under Joyent control.
I am not sure what Samsung being Asian has to do with anything :) This is good news for node.js since what this means is more money gets poured into node.js development. For example Microsoft pouring money into JS seems to have lead directly to Typescript.
What it has to do with it being Asian is the culture of conformity and group think; this is in stark contrast to Bryan's statement that at Joyent everyone leads and is led by taking individual initiative.