“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.

SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.”

Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.

Relevant to your interests

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• Report: Not all open-source software is created equal
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• IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy
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• Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket - Bitbucket
• Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others launch Confidential Computing Consortium for data security
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• Gene Kim on the Nokia book

Nonsense

• Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode
• Harvard Just Discovered that PowerPoint is Worse Than Useless
• Air New Zealand is Crazy About Rugby

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Conferences, et. al.

• August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow - Coté giving 90 minute workshop. Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
• Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
• Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
• Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney

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