Episode Details

Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts.

• Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 -- Software Defined Talk -- Drinks & Socializing

• What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt?
• Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers.
• Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features

You’ve got Money!

• Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million
• The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public
• BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software
• DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
  • Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
• CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform

Software considered hard

• Why software giants are failing
  • What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
  • The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
  • So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
  • Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
• DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
• Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
  • “What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
  • Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
  • Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?

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