VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by jacques_chester on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:59PM (#20773998)

Pivotal was spun out of EMC and VMware.

From EMC came Pivotal Labs, Greenplum and I think GemFire. From VMware came Spring and Cloud Foundry. Not sure which one RabbitMQ came from.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by epsilon_greedy on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:37PM (#20774338)

GemFire came from VMware. Spring purchased[1] GemStone (which owned gemfire) while they were a division of VMware. RabbitMQ also came from VMware by way of Spring[2].

[1] https://spring.io/blog/2010/05/06/springsource-to-acquire-ge...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100418132113/http://www.rabbit...

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by jacques_chester on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:26AM (#20777964)

I didn't know that! An interesting history.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by brikelly on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:25PM (#20774079)

RabbitMQ was its own startup for a number of years (I think called "Rabbit Technologies") before it got the attention of the SpringSource/VMWare crew.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by bloomburger on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:04PM (#20794459)

How disruptive have the ownership changes been over the last few years? From going public now back to private?

ANY thoughts on the strategic value if PVTL under the VMware umbrella? Already close partners will the acquisition really make any difference?

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