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In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

nbrempel 10y ago
Congrats Bryan! :D
neom 10y ago
Congrats my friend. :)
supster 10y ago
Thanks for all your work on Node.js!
nickpsecurity 10y ago
Congratulations! Good to see a strong platform combined with my favorite Android company.
newman314 10y ago
I'm hoping Joyent can positively affect Smartthings...
xer0x 10y ago
Congrats Bryan
xorgar831 10y ago
This is great news! Would love to see your tech in a datacenter in US central, would use it in a sec. :)
dang 10y ago
That's more substantive and less press-releasey than https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-to-acquire-joyent-a-leading-public-and-private-cloud-provider https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-to-acquire-joyent-a-..., so maybe we'll just change the URL to that. Also, congrats!
combatentropy 10y ago
Thank you for not burying the lede! It's a lost art.
- thinkloop 10y ago
  What does burying the lede mean in the context of hn?
  - taneq 10y ago
    It's the first sentence of the linked blog post, and the meaning seems pretty clear - instead of waffling on about how amazing an experience it's been and how much they've learned blah blah blah they just say "hey we got bought by Samsung."
- ethbro 10y ago
  Never saw it as "lede". Thanks for my new thing of the morning! Wiki: "In journalism, lede is an alternative spelling for lead paragraph."
phaet0n 10y ago
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.
- rms_returns 10y ago
  > 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/ http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/
  - bogomipz 10y ago
    Why is your link relevant? Joyent = Illumos, which is a fork of open-Solaris, not Linux at all.
    - benley 10y ago
      The point being that Samsung give a shit about contributing to open-source projects at all.
      - bogomipz 10y ago
        Have you used the browser on a Samsung Smart TV? They didn't give a shit about that.
        ethbro 10y ago
        I think a lot of hardware companies are still in the "smart" transition phase. In the sense that they've only been offering a product line with GUI driven software component for the past ~5 years. Which means the larger companies* are probably on schedule for development to start slowing because of technical debt. And therefore solving that (modern development practices and open source involvement!) will become a competive advantage. * Sadly, the smaller companies will probably always be hacked-together-MVP stacks on top of whatever release they started dev on
jimpick 10y ago
Congrats!
ubersol1 10y ago
Congrats Bryan!!!
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simonebrunozzi 10y ago
Congrats! Very smart move by Samsung.
fitzwatermellow 10y ago
Nice win. SaaS M&A so hot right now ;) We use Joyent for nodejs microservices, chiefly any server side DOM manipulations (using jsdom), and it's been solid! Currently evaluating docker container management and will give Triton a go...
CyberDildonics 10y ago
I'm happy for you. I love your talks and your passion for good software that goes beyond feature checklists and the bare minimum to ship and be patched later. Have fun and fuck Oracle, the anti King Midas of companies.
dimino 10y ago
Has anyone in your position ever written to say, "Meh, not optimistic about this"? Just saying, there's a bit of bias that's probably worth recognizing.
mzs 10y ago
Congratulations Bryan, I learned so much from you in such a short period of time, forever grateful, good roads!
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tw04 10y ago
Bryan - hope you see this since I don't appear to have your email anymore. Do you guys have a list of maximums for Manta anywhere? Specifically object count - but node count/total storage/etc. I'm guessing that was part of the samsung testing :)

nbrempel 10y ago

Congrats Bryan! :D

neom 10y ago

Congrats my friend. :)

supster 10y ago

Thanks for all your work on Node.js!

nickpsecurity 10y ago

Congratulations! Good to see a strong platform combined with my favorite Android company.

newman314 10y ago

I'm hoping Joyent can positively affect Smartthings...

xer0x 10y ago

Congrats Bryan

xorgar831 10y ago

This is great news! Would love to see your tech in a datacenter in US central, would use it in a sec. :)

dang 10y ago

That's more substantive and less press-releasey than https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-to-acquire-joyent-a-leading-public-and-private-cloud-provider https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-to-acquire-joyent-a-..., so maybe we'll just change the URL to that. Also, congrats!

combatentropy 10y ago

Thank you for not burying the lede! It's a lost art.

thinkloop 10y ago
What does burying the lede mean in the context of hn?
- taneq 10y ago
  It's the first sentence of the linked blog post, and the meaning seems pretty clear - instead of waffling on about how amazing an experience it's been and how much they've learned blah blah blah they just say "hey we got bought by Samsung."
ethbro 10y ago
Never saw it as "lede". Thanks for my new thing of the morning! Wiki: "In journalism, lede is an alternative spelling for lead paragraph."

phaet0n 10y ago

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.

rms_returns 10y ago
> 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/ http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/
- bogomipz 10y ago
  Why is your link relevant? Joyent = Illumos, which is a fork of open-Solaris, not Linux at all.
  - benley 10y ago
    The point being that Samsung give a shit about contributing to open-source projects at all.
    - bogomipz 10y ago
      Have you used the browser on a Samsung Smart TV? They didn't give a shit about that.
      - ethbro 10y ago
        I think a lot of hardware companies are still in the "smart" transition phase. In the sense that they've only been offering a product line with GUI driven software component for the past ~5 years. Which means the larger companies* are probably on schedule for development to start slowing because of technical debt. And therefore solving that (modern development practices and open source involvement!) will become a competive advantage. * Sadly, the smaller companies will probably always be hacked-together-MVP stacks on top of whatever release they started dev on

jimpick 10y ago

Congrats!

ubersol1 10y ago

Congrats Bryan!!!

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simonebrunozzi 10y ago

Congrats! Very smart move by Samsung.

fitzwatermellow 10y ago

Nice win. SaaS M&A so hot right now ;) We use Joyent for nodejs microservices, chiefly any server side DOM manipulations (using jsdom), and it's been solid! Currently evaluating docker container management and will give Triton a go...

CyberDildonics 10y ago

I'm happy for you. I love your talks and your passion for good software that goes beyond feature checklists and the bare minimum to ship and be patched later. Have fun and fuck Oracle, the anti King Midas of companies.

dimino 10y ago

Has anyone in your position ever written to say, "Meh, not optimistic about this"? Just saying, there's a bit of bias that's probably worth recognizing.

mzs 10y ago

Congratulations Bryan, I learned so much from you in such a short period of time, forever grateful, good roads!

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tw04 10y ago

Bryan - hope you see this since I don't appear to have your email anymore. Do you guys have a list of maximums for Manta anywhere? Specifically object count - but node count/total storage/etc. I'm guessing that was part of the samsung testing :)