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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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throwawayfigs wrote: post #64

"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by hedgehog »

throwawayfigs wrote: post #64

"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…

That wording implies an asset sale which is for anyone involved in or doing business with Fig a big difference. In that case existing ownership and obligations stay with the original entity (probably something like Fig Inc, Delaware corp), the whole team gets hired on at Amazon, Amazon buys the tech they want for some payment the Fig board signs off on, and then someone goes in to clean up and wind down Fig Inc. It's common when big companies buy much smaller companies because doing a full purchase can be a lot more complicated.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by onion2k »

gdsdfe wrote: post #71
hot_gril wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon buying Fig doesn't imply the team joins AWS.

when a company buys another company it kinda does the opposite would be the outlier

It's much more common for the acquired company to continue as an entity in its own right with only the board changing in the short term, and often continuing as a brand within the acquirer's business in the long term. Integrating a existing team into a company is hard. That said, Amazon has a lot of experience doing exactly that. I think they'll be fine.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by tesseract »

throwawayfigs wrote: post #64

"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…

> That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way

Often that kind of language is employed when the actual transaction was structured as an asset sale coupled with en-masse hiring of the team, rather than a true acquisition of the company as a complete entity, which is not an unusual scenario when a company is in distress.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by gurchik »

acmecorps wrote: post #48

Tried to check it out, but I got "Signups are currently disabled" :(

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS.

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Post by [deleted] »

throwawayfigs wrote: post #64

"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by gpvos »

the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

They give a timeline of a few weeks, so presumably we'll see soon enough.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by ryneandal »

the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

Yeah, that is my expectation about its future as well. I really enjoyed using Fig for clear CLI introspection for many of my common workflows.

I am fully expecting that I'll have to go back to zsh-autosuggestions once the current iteration is fully wound down.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by w0mbat »

I installed Fig just now and got "Something went wrong. Signups are currently disabled." when I tried to use it.

Their servers have been overwhelmed by Hacker News traffic presumably.

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