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Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management
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We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.”
Important nonsense- Vinsanto is the Greek wine Coté was talking about.
- No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo.
- Coté rides a Lime scooter
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Relevant to your interests- AT&T to Acquire AlienVault
- Broadcom buying CA:
- Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. "Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly $2.2bn in the 2017-2018 financial year, followed by its enterprise solutions segment at $1.75bn and services at $311m."
- Coté’s 7 tips for becoming a software company, 2016.
- “Wait… what?”
- Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure'
- Coté: what was Davenport’s plan to profit?
- A customer complaint about Google Cloud went viral last week, and now Google is doing damage control to 'ensure this does not happen again’
- The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares, i.e., Snap: ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company does, and th