Episode Details

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion.

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• Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control. $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here.
• As ever, the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise.
• Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU.
• Matt needs a driver's license

• HSA is probably a good idea.
• Better get a FAX machine.
• This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware.

• He Tweetered it: "to help them with their DevOps journey."
• He's a VP! - exec level #AchievementUnlocked
• He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps."
• It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does.
• He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit: "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing."
• Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel?
• I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days.
• Checks out: "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 count