Episode Details

Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles.

Opening comments:

• The intersection between business books and dog vomit.
• Democracy sausage.
• Coté can’t get extra pickles.
• Let me close out this topic of pickles.
• It’s not Burger King.
• Enterprise Salespeople don’t get tattoos
• T-shirt currency arbitrage.
• Literally misspelled responsibility
• Tacos and IT transformation
• 7 layer burrito of IT transformation.
• BSD and Linux are the same, right? (Don’t email me.)
• Don’t watch Coté’s old videos.
• Did the cat walk on your keyboard?

Relevant to your interests

• VMware to acquire Bitnami:
  • VMware’s desires: “Upon close, Bitnami will enable our customers to easily deploy application packages on any cloud— public or hybrid—and in the most optimal format—virtual machine (VM), containers and Kubernetes helm charts. Further, Bitnami will be able to augment our existing efforts to deliver a curated marketplace to VMware customers that offers a rich set of applications and development environments in addition to infrastructure software.”
  • Coté: so Bitnami is a thing that packages up software for you in (VMs?) containers and stuff, maybe with some Helm chart stuff for deploying to kubernetes? And a service that manages them in EC2?
  • Jay@451: “The acquisition will also help VMware support applications in various forms – including VMs, containers and Kubernetes Helm charts – across the different infrastructures. With Bitnami, VMware is also positioned to support ISVs and open source software components with Bitnami's catalog of curated, secured, certified components.”
  • “VMware says it has acquired Bitnami for its multi-cloud competency and its Kubernetes expertise. VMware's acquisitions of CloudVelox, Heptio and CloudHealth have signaled its appetite for multi-cloud and Kubernetes.”
  • The New Stack coverage: “Monocular, a service described by Bitnami as an open source search and discovery frontend for Helm Chart repositories.”
  • https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami-the-app-marketplace-platform-and-container-packager/
• Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?
  • Coté’s collection of interesting bits, including:
  • “This was effectively taking a WebSphere e-commerce monolith with an Oracle RAC database, and moving it, and modularising it, and putting it into AWS.”
  • “’Today, we run about 80 per cent of our groceries online with EC2, and 20 per cent is serverless.’ In total, the company migrated more than 7TB of data into the cloud. As a result, or so Jordan claimed, the mart spends 30 per cent less on infrastructure, and regularly sees a 70-80 per cent improvement in performance of interactions on the website and batch processing.”

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