Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts.
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Software considered hard
- Why software giants are failing
- What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
- The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
- So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
- Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
- DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
- Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
- “What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
- Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
- Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?
- WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record
- “Microsoft may have a mixed history with open source, but today the company is demonstrating some impressive traction when it comes to open source community contributions. If we are to judge the company on its recent actions, the data shows what Satya Nadella said in his announcement about Microsoft being “all in on open source” is more than just words.”
- Microsoft starts outlining its Visual Studio 2019 plans
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- June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
- Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
- Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
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