IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp

Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by jaennaet on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:10PM (#43199621)

Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags!

"Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature flags decouple release from deployment, it provides a good solution for improving software development velocity and business agility," said Jim Mercer, program vice president of IDC Software Development DevOps and DevSecOps. "Further, feature flags can help derisk releases, enable product experimentation, and allow for targeting and personalizing end-user experiences."

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US52763824

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by ghaff on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:19PM (#43200167)

Relatively few IDC clients are paying retail for single reports other than reprint rights. They're clients with broad employee access to events and reports in various areas. Had access for many years and, yes, having (supposedly validated) data is more or less essential for lots of presentations and other types of documents because, otherwise, your claims are viewed as pulling stuff out of you rear end.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by tecleandor on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:58PM (#43200808)

So if you just point to something an IDC - analyst? has pulled of their rear end... is alright? ;-)

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by jcgrillo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:39PM (#43201112)

> more or less essential for lots of presentations and other types of documents

Wait. What? This reminds me of the trope of the "wikipedia citation" in high school and college.. that move was worth at most a C+. Are you seriously saying these fucks actually seriously cite this bullshit? In this day and age where even crowdsourced wiki articles seem "credible"? What the actual fuck? I hate this shit.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by homebrewer on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:17PM (#43199675)

Something I always respected in Americans is their talent for making money from absolutely nothing, providing zero or negative value in the process of doing so. Obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but you have more than a fair share of these people.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by jcgrillo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:20PM (#43200969)

Only in america: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by delulu on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:22AM (#43202342)

Yeah, that's kinda how we keep the Ponzi scheme going. Too bad it's making India deathly hot, though.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by jcgrillo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:15PM (#43199663)

I'm clearly in the wrong field.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by ghaff on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:21PM (#43200188)

The analyst biz doesn't actually pay especially well--at least compared to big SV-based companies.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by jcgrillo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:31PM (#43201060)

Yeah but I could make this shit up in like.. 15-20min/mo vs working for a living like a normal human person. I'm just imagining the sheer number of vertical feet of skiing I'm missing out on and seeing red.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by delulu on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:23AM (#43202346)

Is it worth going to Hell, though?

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by airplaneears on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:21AM (#43202337)

Rich dummies.

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