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Ah, very interesting possibilities! I'm still worried about taking an ultra productive startup like EngineYard and placing it in the "machinery" of a big corpor
by jpcx01 16y ago
Ah, very interesting possibilities! I'm still worried about taking an ultra productive startup like EngineYard and placing it in the "machinery" of a big corporate entity like VMWare. But maybe it would allow some really cool teams to work together closely to build the ultimate ruby deployment platform.
- petercooper 16y agoIt's hard to tell how the VMware purchase has affected GemStone since they don't seem to be very vocal but work on Maglev (a Ruby implementation) appears to have continued well. I also know Redis has come on leaps and bounds and Salvatore seems to have been given a lot of autonomy by them. Perhaps I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but I just have a feeling in my bones that VMware might be opening the can on a new chapter of not only dominating the virtualization tools market but by getting heavily into commercializing open source technologies too (as Red Hat and Sun did). There's only so much money in selling products, after all. Their acquisition of SpringSource last year also gives this indication.
- samratjp 16y agoI suppose a good predictor of Engine Yard's post acquisition life would be to see how the past acquisitions are doing now. If any of them have a flickr+Yahoo mess, then EY should worry!
- swombat 16y agoI wonder if EngineYard really qualifies as "ultra-productive" still...