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VMware to Acquire Bitnami
- logronoide 7y agoHow much?
- bin0 7y agoIt announced "intent to acquire", and did not say.
- xmly 7y agoI guess it is not a huge one because the growth would be a problem. Only installing the application on Cloud is deadly simple these days and is getting simpler. Each major cloud providers have their own app store. And people are moving to SaaS...
- ridruejo 7y agoCorrect. We are the top provider of those marketplaces
- alexandernst 7y agoSo... what happens now with all the employees that have stock options?
- roseway4 7y agoThey probably exercise their options and make some $ off the transaction.
- alexandernst 7y agoHow so? They don't have any actual stock. They have options to stock.
- andy_boot 7y agoUsually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.
- mattmireles 7y agoexercise the option = buy the stock
- xmly 7y agoIt depends on which type of options. The exercise date could be fixed or variable. But you could sell the options at its current market if there is a market.
- r0m4n0 7y agoWent through an acquisition with Vmware... they converted the stock options to Vmware options that vested at the same rate and were worth the exact same based upon the acquisition price. If they had already vested, they just paid you out. This may depend on the deal though.
- rongenre 7y agoI've been through two acquisitions and part of the deal terms if the valuation of the acquiree's shares (which the cap table and liquidation preferences have a huge effect on). First time my options were converted to options in the acquirer's company. Second time they turned into RSU's.
- geofft 7y agoI feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?
- mxd3 7y agoLots of small business as well. Want to deploy to the cloud but lack the skill set to manage a real server.
- devoply 7y agoIs that not a disaster waiting to happen.
- linuxftw 7y agoOf course, but the premise is that the small businesses don't know enough to make these evaluations anyway.
- derefr 7y agoNot in the hypothetical world where Bitnami reaches through the connection and manages the “server” embedded in the software for them. Like Ubuntu LTS with automatic security updates + kernel patches turned on, but at the individual-application level.
- outside1234 7y agoThe alternative is that they install it themselves, which sounds even riskier.
- geofft 7y agoIsn't the alternative that they find a SaaS company to do it for them? Everything from WordPress to GitLab to Jenkins to ELK has good we'll-run-it-for-you vendors. (Bitnami also offers things like memcached and kube-state-metrics and language runtimes, but I'm not sure how you manage to make sure of them without having enough expertise to install software yourself. You can definitely find vendors to do the higher-level task for you, if you're in the market for something like that.) Or that they hire someone with the relevant expertise, but sure, we can assume that they're not going to do that for the purposes of discussion.
- sciurus 7y agoBitnami has their announcement at https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.html https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h...
- stuff4ben 7y agoI wonder when Rancher will get acquired? Its just a matter of time. And VMWare seems to be buying a lot of these types of companies.
- benballjr 7y agoI think many of these container orchestration adjacent companies large and small are standing up straight hoping for an acquisition in general — I don't think it's going to happen for all of them.
- NamPNQ 7y agoCongrats VMWare
- miguelmota 7y agoMy experience with Bitnami images was that it was very quick and easy to get up and running but trying to configure configuration on the server was pretty difficult because of how many bitnami configuration files there were spread out everywhere and not where you'd expect them
- ridruejo 7y agoYes, this is something that we need to continue to improve. Part of the challenge is that there is a tradeoff with making something "native" vs. consistent across MacOS, Linux, Windows and different formats (containers, VMs, etc)
- netvarun 7y agoDaniel and Erica are two of the most thoughtful and kindest founders I know. We got to know each other during our yc batch (w13) and it’s been a great privilege to have Daniel as an advisor for my company. Can’t think of a better match - the company that pioneered the App Store for servers joining the company that pioneered/commercialized virtualization.
- netvarun 7y agoMy favorite Bitnami hack -> Using the free EdX Bitnami image[1] to hack a sophisticated LMS (Learning Management System) for your company. [1] https://bitnami.com/stack/edx https://bitnami.com/stack/edx
- ridruejo 7y agoThanks Varun! Likewise, thanks for helping us and giving us technical feedback when we needed it. You have been pioneers and are on a great path yourselves.
- yahyaheee 7y agoVMware is going to crush with heptio and bitnami teamed up
- stuff4ben 7y agoYep and they're going to be some big competition to RedHat/IBM in the Kubernetes space. Hence my other post on who is going to acquire Rancher as they're one of the bigger names in the K8s arena. Cisco would be a good one (disclaimer: I work for them but have no knowledge of any acquisition).
- buttonmasher1 7y agoI'm usually not one to make comments on race, but from this picture I found it a bit strange that almost every single person in Bitnami is white (and they're in SF too). https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.html https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h...