VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack

VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack(saltstack.com)

33 points by corywright 5 years ago | 6 comments

easton 5 years ago |

I hope they keep the Salt Cloud stuff open, that was handy for driving on-prem hypervisors that weren't running vSphere. (Although, it gives a good reason not to buy vSphere, I guess).

nunez 5 years ago |

What is VMware getting from this acquisition?

Also, who is going to buy Puppet?

jamesbfb 5 years ago | |

Don’t forget ansible

user5994461 5 years ago | | |

Ansible was sold to RedHat few years ago.

Chef was sold for scrap earlier this month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24407323

Puppet took $40M in debt in July. I don't think they are sellable because they had a high valuation and now a ton of debt, while the product is on a strong downward trend replaced by ansible/terraform. My guess is they get enough revenues from a few large customers to sustain a small-medium company.