Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by user5994461 on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:48PM (#19363170)

They barely have any revenue and they're struggling.

It's probably one of the next companies to be acquired in the coming years.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by mitchellh on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:55PM (#19364094)

I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp. We don't publicly talk about exact numbers, but we broke through 9-figures last year, and a very low % of that is support (its mostly enterprise software). That also isn't using any accounting tricks (such as a ton of multi-year deals). We're doing very well. We're in no talks to be acquired, either.

I can't prove any of this, you'd have to take my word for it! I guess if we ever go public in N years (not saying we are, but _if_), you'll see for yourself on historical results. :)

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by ETHisso2017 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:55AM (#19366167)

Congrats on the success! Given your enterprise traction, though, how do you guys intend to avoid the problem Elastic is facing from AWS?

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by Terretta on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:36PM (#19364874)

Fantastic to hear you’re still crushing it.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by sqs on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:03PM (#19363305)

HashiCorp is doing VERY well revenue-wise. They are not struggling. Where did you hear they are struggling?

(I have no affiliation with HashiCorp.)

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by dymk on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:07PM (#19363345)

Instead of taking either of your words for it, are there any actual direct sources on Hashicorp's earnings?

The only source I found was https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/2017-year-in-review which just says the company "can be successful", not that it is making money.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by nemothekid on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:27PM (#19363492)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18363453

From Mitchell himself - at the very least they are growing very quickly. For all the complaining about "pricing pages", I think hashicorp is doing the right thing. Focus on selling to the big dogs who can give you a sustainable business and don't cloud your pipeline with smaller shops who wish to shop around.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by SteveNuts on Monday March 11, 2019 @09:15PM (#19364510)

Hashi should honestly set up a donations page, we'd love to throw them some money because we use their entire suite, but the pricing is clearly geared towards whales.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by nodesocket on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:56PM (#19363692)

Do you have inside knowledge of this? I wouldn't be surprised; open-source enterprise software is incredibly hard, but Terraform Enterprise for example is a really solid offering and not to expensive. It is actually very doable even for small (< 5 people) startups.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by the_common_man on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:53PM (#19363214)

I have always wondered what this enterprise support means? So if a big company starts using vagrant, they would dole out 100k for a support contract? I find this hard to believe but what do I know.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by sokoloff on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:10PM (#19363370)

You would be amazed at the spread between big companies who decide "we won't pay $20 for support for something critical!" and other companies who decide "OMG, we can't run /bin/bash without a support contract and someone to yell at if it goes wrong!"

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by GenerocUsername on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:07PM (#19363338)

My enterprise company wont even get us Postman Premium to the tune of ~$150 per seat per year...

So here we are slacking postman collections back and forth on our current year mac books.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by pavelevst on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:35AM (#19366548)

Did you consider to create testing app to simulate customer experience? I can be a single html+js file in a git, for each major feature

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