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Re:HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale by pizzafeelsright on Sunday March 17, 2024 @10:39AM (#39734764)
My guess is it'll be IBM.

Based upon some research into numbers...

They'll absorb the talent. Expand IBMs offering of Vault-ish product while basically reselling Vault as a line item addition to their existing line items.

Less pain for IBM from license drama and the selling of open source Vault with an IBM tweak to a MUCH larger user base with zero sales expense.

IBM gets all Vault talent Hashi gets massive market without sales

Hashi is $800MM revenue because of 80% sales and marketing.

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Re:HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale by candiddevmike on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:03PM (#39735367)
IBM is backing OpenTofu and OpenBao AFAIK. They're supposedly one of the main reasons for the licensing change. Cisco was looking to buy HC years ago, I would bet they're still interested (wonder if it will be for less money...)
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Re:HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale by tinyspacewizard on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:53PM (#39735820)
Could easily be leverage in the negotiation.
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Re:HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale by master_crab on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:12PM (#39737108)
IBM is a good guess but it would probably be more accurate at this stage to point at anyone that missed the cloud wars and are claiming to be a “multi-cloud manager.”

Definitely IBM, maybe Nutanix, possibly Broadcom. Hell, maybe even Cisco.

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Re:HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale by mandeepj on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:59PM (#39738003)
> My guess is it'll be IBM.

Could have Cisco as well! They are a lot more engaged in transforming themselves and doing a lot of M&A

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