Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by byteknight on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:30AM
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How on earth does buying Wiz force other developers to move? I think the tinfoil is too tight.
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They don’t need to force people, just make them a very good targeted offer. This is also great for seeing which features their customers use most to help GCP catch up to the competition, too.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by stevenAthompson on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:35AM
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It doesn't force them to move, it just gets Google the information about how you use competitors products so they can out negotiate them come deal time.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by stackskipton on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:35AM
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Wiz itself doesn’t. But Wiz knows what is going on in everyone cloud. That data could be fed to GCP sales team though customers might riot if that happens.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by creaghpatr on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:44AM
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>That data could be fed to GCP sales team though customers might riot if that happens
Large enterprises don't sign the stock terms and conditions that would enable this, most do or should have legal teams redlining contracts around how cloud data is accessed and used by vendors. Maybe Wiz is so good they would agree to it, but it would get challenged and negotiated during the sales cycle.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by isoprophlex on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:18AM
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Clients can have their lawyers jump up and down but the data is there, you just KNOW the mothership gonna use it. All they need is some obfuscation and plausible denyability. It's just too good to not use it.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by adhamsalama on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:46PM
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Given that Israel has been committing an ongoing genocide for over a year and the world is supporting them, I don't think anyone will object to an Israeli company passing that data to Google.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:33AM
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There's no force but Google can now leverage the data from Wiz to target good customers for other services.
How is this not a good thing for everyone involved? Or am I wrong for reading the comment in a tone that I perceived to be critical?
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @08:31AM
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I dunno, I don't like the anti-trust implications (using Wiz data to target companies on AWS/Azure) but other than that I don't really care.
That's probably cos I am far away from this space.