Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

VMware to acquire Bitnami:

VMware’s desires: “Upon close, Bitnami will enable our customers to easily deploy application packages on any cloud— public or hybrid—and in the most optimal format—virtual machine (VM), containers and Kubernetes helm charts. Further, Bitnami will be able to augment our existing efforts to deliver a curated marketplace to VMware customers that offers a rich set of applications and development environments in addition to infrastructure software.”
Coté: so Bitnami is a thing that packages up software for you in (VMs?) containers and stuff, maybe with some Helm chart stuff for deploying to kubernetes? And a service that manages them in EC2?
Jay@451: “The acquisition will also help VMware support applications in various forms – including VMs, containers and Kubernetes Helm charts – across the different infrastructures. With Bitnami, VMware is also positioned to support ISVs and open source software components with Bitnami's catalog of curated, secured, certified components.”
“VMware says it has acquired Bitnami for its multi-cloud competency and its Kubernetes expertise. VMware's acquisitions of CloudVelox, Heptio and CloudHealth have signaled its appetite for multi-cloud and Kubernetes.”
The New Stack coverage: “Monocular, a service described by Bitnami as an open source search and discovery frontend for Helm Chart repositories.”
https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami-the-app-marketplace-platform-and-container-packager/

Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?

Coté’s collection of interesting bits, including:
“This was effectively taking a WebSphere e-commerce monolith with an Oracle RAC database, and moving it, and modularising it, and putting it into AWS.”
“’Today, we run about 80 per cent of our groceries online with EC2, and 20 per cent is serverless.’ In total, the company migrated more than 7TB of data into the cloud. As a result, or so Jordan claimed, the mart spends 30 per cent less on infrastructure, and regularly sees a 70-80 per cent improvement in performance of interactions on the website and batch processing.”
Australian $50 bills

Symantec CEO Greg Clark steps down, stock drops

GitHub Package Registry: Your packages, at home with their code

JFrog and Sonatype watch out

How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop

It’s time for another installment of Coté’s Pedantry on Market Share Analysis (tm).
Windows ships a Linux in a nifty VM.
Chromebook market share was ~13% in Gartner’s 2016Q4 estimates (based on 9.4m Chromebooks shipped out of 72.6m laptops total).
Meanwhile, Gartner estimates that something like 2bn mobile devices (phones and tablets) were shipped in 2016. Gartner said shipments for “PCs, tablets and mobile phones” was 2.33bn in 2016 (if I read the press release right - something around those numbers).
…if you run-rate the Chromebook Q4 (which is very kind since Christmas and corporate end-of-year spending is in Q4), you get 2016 shipments of 37.6m Chromebooks. So, out of all types of computing devices, Chromebooks are, like 37.6m out of 2.3bn, or ~2%, right?
Clearly: LINUX DESKTOP VICTORY! (I guess you could throw MacOS in there, but those who’d care say that was BSD or something, right? Even if you do throw them in and do *nix market share, what’s it like? Gartner says 2018Q4 Apple share was 7.2%, so add in Chromebooks and we’re at 9.2% - round it up for shits and giggles, and we’re at 10%. That anything?)
iOS - FreeBSD?

Google now lists playable podcasts in search results

ParkMyCloud is Now Part of Turbonomic - ParkMyCloud

Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech

It’s the new Spotify Culture!

Oppressive countries used a newly-discovered WhatsApp flaw to spy on activists

The red hot 'FAANG' trade is officially over, now bet on your fellow 'MAAN'

FOSDEM 2019 - The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base

Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another WannaCry

Suggested headline: “Wutzit! Washington Windows Wunderkin Wonder Why Worms WannaCry”

Google replaces its Bluetooth security keys because they can be accessed by nearby attackers

New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011

Google is about to have a lot more ads on phones

Donald Trump is short-circuiting the electronics industry

IBM reps can sell IBM and Red Hat: ‘in the field, "IBM sales guys will get comped on Red Hat products, but our sales guys will only get comped on Red Hat products."’

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