VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes

Re:VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-found... by tedsanders on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:19PM (#18392923)

Google is a great example too. Many of Google’s best-known hits began outside of Google:

* Maps (maps from Where2 Technologies, acquired in 2004; real-time traffic from ZipDash, acquired in 2004; satellite imagery from Keyhole, acquired in 2005)

* Android (founded in 2003, bought for $50M+ in 2005)

* YouTube (founded in 2005, bought for $1.7B in 2006)

* Adsense (Google acquired Applied Semantics in 2003, DoubleClick in 2007, and AdMob for mobile ads in 2009)

* Google Docs (spreadsheets by 2Web, acquired in 2005; docs by Upstartle, acquired in 2006; slides by Tonic Systems, acquired in 2007)

* Waymo (Thrun's team, 510 Systems)

A long list of Alphabet's acquisitions are on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

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Re:VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-found... by basch on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:32PM (#18394188)

Even IBM Cloud is largely built from SoftLayer, Cloudant, Compose, Cleversafe etc, RedHat fits perflectly with IBMs strategy since 2014.

Interestingly enough, IBM has even left https://www.compose.com/ as a standalone entity for now.

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