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VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack

• nunez 6y ago
  What is VMware getting from this acquisition? Also, who is going to buy Puppet?
  • jamesbfb 6y ago
    Don’t forget ansible
    • user5994461 6y ago
      Ansible was sold to RedHat few years ago. Chef was sold for scrap earlier this month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24407323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24407323 Puppet took $40M in debt in July. I don't think they are sellable because they had a high valuation and now a ton of debt, while the product is on a strong downward trend replaced by ansible/terraform. My guess is they get enough revenues from a few large customers to sustain a small-medium company.
      • SahAssar 6y ago
        I'm just guessing here, but most investors in this space are not happy with a "small-medium company" and would probably push for a sale instead.
      • kyuudou 6y ago
        >Ansible was sold to RedHat few years ago. And RedHat is now owned by IBM
• easton 6y ago
  I hope they keep the Salt Cloud stuff open, that was handy for driving on-prem hypervisors that weren't running vSphere. (Although, it gives a good reason not to buy vSphere, I guess).