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I have a list of places I wouldn't like to work for. IBM is very near the top 👋
(Oracle is #1 in the list by a wide margin)
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm

HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation
HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate the mission of multi-cloud automation and bring the products to a broader audience of users and customers.

IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…

IBM buys HashiCorp for 6,4 billion USD.
It probably was a good idea, that some of the most important Open Source products were already forked some time ago.
Sigh.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
$6.4 billion acquisition adds suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products to help clients grappling with today's AI-driven...

I mean, good for them (seriously), but it’s truly hard to believe that the sometimes-janky ruby-amounts-of-slow VM launcher that I did awful things to in order to hack it into submission for things like custom DNS resolution and automatic VPN connections to the host, 10 years ago—Vagrant—has hard-work-bloomed into a company that IBM acquired for 6.4 billion-with-a-b dollars.
(Glad we’re not using their stuff right now, but truly happy for the

IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
$6.4 billion acquisition adds suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products to help clients grappling with today's AI-driven...

Sources: IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in the coming days; HashiCorp's stock jumps 22% (Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/VsR9EO3Ch2

Sources: HashiCorp, which helps companies manage their cloud infrastructure, has been considering options including a sale; HCP jumps 11% after hours (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/softw…

HashiCorp (HCP) Weighs Potential Sale
HashiCorp Inc., a provider of software that helps companies operate in the cloud, has been considering options including a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said.

#bitBlog Zero Trust Access with #Hashicorp Boundary https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/zero_tr

Seeing HashiCorp & Redis unravelling is painful but exactly what the end of free money does to corporate FOSS – no matter what promises were made before. Systems do what systems do. Let’s brace ourselves, this is just the beginning. https://mstdn.social/@msw/112130308202090850…

IBM reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.46B, vs. $14.55B est., software revenue up 5.5% YoY to $5.9B, and net income of $1.6B, up from $927M YoY; IBM drops 5% (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/ibm-q1-earnings-report-2024…

The cloudflare thing where they had a token they didn't rotate is another check box for me for "short lived oauth role federation should be supported by every cloud provider"
The ux of how github oidc or AWS roles work.
None of this long lived API key stuff.
#Hashicorp vault shouldn't need to exist.