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My guess is it'll be IBM. Based upon some research into numbers... They'll absorb the talent. Expand IBMs offering of Vault-ish product while basically resell
by pizzafeelsright 3y ago
My guess is it'll be IBM.
Based upon some research into numbers...
They'll absorb the talent. Expand IBMs offering of Vault-ish product while basically reselling Vault as a line item addition to their existing line items.
Less pain for IBM from license drama and the selling of open source Vault with an IBM tweak to a MUCH larger user base with zero sales expense.
IBM gets all Vault talent
Hashi gets massive market without sales
Hashi is $800MM revenue because of 80% sales and marketing.
- candiddevmike 3y agoIBM is backing OpenTofu and OpenBao AFAIK. They're supposedly one of the main reasons for the licensing change. Cisco was looking to buy HC years ago, I would bet they're still interested (wonder if it will be for less money...)
- tinyspacewizard 3y agoCould easily be leverage in the negotiation.
- master_crab 3y agoIBM is a good guess but it would probably be more accurate at this stage to point at anyone that missed the cloud wars and are claiming to be a “multi-cloud manager.” Definitely IBM, maybe Nutanix, possibly Broadcom. Hell, maybe even Cisco.
- mandeepj 3y ago> My guess is it'll be IBM. Could have Cisco as well! They are a lot more engaged in transforming themselves and doing a lot of M&A