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To hopefully clarify a little, Pivotal is the "joint venture" of EMC and VMware to which the article refers. Big data in the cloud is the idea behind the busine
by prophetjohn 13y ago
To hopefully clarify a little, Pivotal is the "joint venture" of EMC and VMware to which the article refers. Big data in the cloud is the idea behind the business.
Pivotal Labs was purchased by EMC, though, and is thus a part of Pivotal. I can't say for sure, but I'm betting that's where the name comes from.
Source: Pivotal Labs employee.
- ballard 13y agoI never heard of Pivotal having big data experience before the acquisition announcement. Their bread-and-butter was providing pairs of Rails programmers and best practices at $500/hr.
- prophetjohn 13y agoYou're thinking of Pivotal Labs.
- ballard 13y agoSame thing, nit picking and even they refer to themselves as Pivotal. "Mee oversaw Pivotal Labs’ acquisition by EMC Corporation in March 2012, and continues to lead and guide the vision for Pivotal Labs as vice president of the Cloud Application Platform Group at Pivotal." http://pivotallabs.com/team/executives/ http://pivotallabs.com/team/executives/
- prophetjohn 13y agoIt's not the same thing. Labs is part of the greater Pivotal umbrella which includes SpringSource, Cloud Foundry and others. There is no Cloud Application Platform Group at Pivotal Labs. This is also part of the greater Pivotal umbrella. Rob oversees that group and Pivotal Labs, which he founded. I'll admit that we do sometimes colloquially refer to Labs as just "Pivotal," but that's not what the name Pivotal is referring to in what you're quoting. It's referring specifically to the company named Pivotal (http://gopivotal.com/ http://gopivotal.com/)