Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by PaulHoule on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:44AM
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Sounds like something Oracle would love.
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It has to be insanely complicated with horrible UX too so probably did not pass.
sumologic would qualify then.
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by johnvanommen on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:26PM
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If anyone's ever wondered how it got the dumb name:
Back in the day, I worked for an automation company. The software was called "Blade Runner." This was in the era when blade servers were all the rage.
Turns out you can't use a copyrighted name, so they changed it from "Blade Runner" to "BladeLogic." (All the directories are still "BR" btw.)
A bunch of the people from BladeLogic pulled a Mark Zuckerberg and moved from the Boston area to the Bay Area and founded SumoLogic, hence the name.
It works too well for Oracle.
Oracle isn’t just expensive, it also has to be technically horrible but still operational.
Oracle already has a log analytics solution that competes with Splunk.