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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by Tuna-Fish on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @02:56PM (#40135759)
IBM is good at selling to large organizations. Large organizations are risk-averse, and prefer not to buy bleeding edge. IBM is pretty much institutionally specialized to sell what was hot last year (or last decade).

People might make fun of this, but I'd like to note that there is a lot of very stable revenue in their business.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by ryandvm on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @03:12PM (#40135957)
I'd also point out that given just how bloody the bleeding edge of software development tooling is, only investing in things that have managed to stick around for a decade sounds pretty damn smart.

Hell, React alone has been through 3 or 4 different paradigms in the last 10 years.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by fishnchips on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @02:59PM (#40135785)
Makes sense when you put it like this. In which case HCP may even be too new for them.
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