Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.
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Mood board:
- Buying something different to try something new.
- Australian bagels.
- “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.”
- “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
- More fools giving their software away for free
- I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon
- Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague
- I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap.
- Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure.
- Matt’s little bit of glue.
- How much simpler can you get than straight code?
- General Container’s army of yamlites.
- Developer tools = vomit on the floor
- Write in if you disagree.
Relevant to your interests
- Pivotal interviews from CF Summit EU:
- Cornelia Davis on PaaS, kubernetes, and cloud native programming.
- IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together
- “our understanding is that IBM plans to turn this into a fully supported project that will give Cloud Foundry users the option to deploy their application right to OpenShift*,* while OpenShift customers will be able to offer their developers the Cloud Foundry experience.”
- COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all
- Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration
- BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage
- Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale
- Recap of the “funding” experiment
- “you have to admit, the fact that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for some SaaS software while ignoring the maintainers who write the actual open source code itself seems a bit unfair.”
- Coté’s hot-take: I mean. Yeah. People will pay $0 for what they want if you give them the chance.
- Should open source software advertise?
- Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken
- Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions
- This is a good example of I-banker think, namely, it doesn’t actually talk about what Nutanix does or what kind of new opportunities Google and them would have together. Lots of fun charts though!
- Everything Apple announced today, including the new iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, and more
- It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive - check out their spreadsheet, with sparkle lines!
- Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations
- Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube
- Announcing Terraform Cloud
- Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons
- IPO’s
- New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners.
Nonsense
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