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Its time for a new internet rule. If Oracle or IBM buys your vendor, you should be migrating.
by briffle 6y ago
Its time for a new internet rule. If Oracle or IBM buys your vendor, you should be migrating.
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- NDizzle 6y agoSad, but accurate.
- dylan604 6y agoThat's almost true for any project getting acquired. The big EvilCorp will always have it's overbearing corporatey corporateness crush the things that made the project so cool it attracted their attention to it. There are very few projects that actually improved from being acquired.
- wayoutthere 6y agoShould probably add Salesforce to that list too. They’re basically the new Oracle.
- macintux 6y agoAnd CA, where software goes to die.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoSerious question: are they? I know they've made a lot of acquisitions over the years, but I don't recall any widely-circulated stories of "Salesforce takes beloved thing and destroys it". The major open-source-friendly company I know of that Salesforce bought was Heroku, and a lot of people seem to use Heroku without even knowing that they are owned by Salesforce (and have been since 2010). It seems like it's too early to say anything definitive about what their purchase of Slack is going to change, although Slack has been making itself quite enterprise-focused all on its own.
- whatsmyusername 6y agoThis isn't a new rule. This has been the standard for a long time.