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rmccue|2 months ago

We moved off HashiCorp's Terraform Cloud when they tried to hike the price 100x on us, although that was technically pre-acquisition I think (it was their move to resource-based pricing). In talking with our account manager, they basically said they only really cared about enterprise accounts, and that migrating away would probably make sense for us.

HashiCorp also changed their licenses to non-open-source licenses, but again I think this was technically pre-acquisition (I think as they were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit).

dangus|2 months ago

In addition to this, I’ve noticed that OpenTofu is gaining much more interesting features and are actually acting upon long-requested functionality that HashiCorp has refused to implement (example: provider for_each in 1.9.0)

mitchellh|2 months ago

> (I think as they were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit).

A common conspiracy theory, but not true.

jen20|2 months ago

> were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit

An "exit" from the public market?

HashiCorps|2 months ago

Former-Hashi employee here: there's a clear prioritization of enterprise products. So much so that I would not be surprised if they stopped supporting the Open Source projects entirely. That would be a big boost for the forks.

Red Hat has far more autonomy. We are not structured the same.

On the HR side — many good people are leaving; new hires have to be on-site for 3 days and located in 4 "strategic" locations in the US.

thayne|2 months ago

That's really bad news for projects that don't (yet?) have significant forks, like consul and vagrant.

this_user|2 months ago

The argument has been made that the real value of RH lies in the people working there. And if IBM were to interfere too heavy-handedly, those people would just leave, and RH would become basically worthless.

bityard|2 months ago

Maybe that's how it should work, but it's not how it actually works.

The culture makes the company. Everyone on the lower rungs of the org chart knows this, because it's what they live and breathe every day. A positive, supportive workplace culture with clear goals and relative autonomy is a thing of beauty. You routinely find people doing more work than they really have to because they believe in the mission, or their peers, or the work is just fun. People join the company (and stay) because they WANT to not because they have to.

Past a certain company size, upper management NEVER sees this. They are always looking outward: strategy, customers, marketing, competition. Never in. They've been trained to give great motivational speeches that instill a sense of company pride and motivation for about 30 seconds. After that, employee morale is HR's job.

I have worked in a company that got acquired while it was profitable. The culture change was slow but dramatic. We went from a fun, dynamic culture with lots of teamwork and supportive management, to one step or two above Office Space. As far as the acquiring company was concerned, everything we were doing didn't matter, even if it worked. We had to conform to their systems and processes, or find new jobs. Most of us eventually did the latter.

Somehow Red Hat seems to be a notable exception. Although IBM owns Red Hat, they seem to have mostly left it alone instead of absorbing it. The name "IBM" doesn't even appear on redhat.com. Because I'm an outsider, I can't say whether IBM meddled in Red Hat's HR or management, but I would guess not.

m4rtink|2 months ago

Well, there is CentOS Stream:

https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

And Fedora is still the upstream of RHEL, nothing changed there.

bluedino|2 months ago

It seems like most users got tired of the unknowns with CentOS and went to Alma/Rocky. Doesn't help that most third party software vendors also didn't bother to support it.

maxloh|2 months ago

No, it is a totally different distro.

CentOS Stream employs a rolling-release model, which is much less stable than RHEL.

The previous main selling point of CentOS was bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL. Red Hat is just killing the distro by moving their focus to a non-existent market. Enthusiasts will choose RHEL, while enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL, which Red Hat could earn money from, or alternatives like Alma or Rocky.

CSMastermind|2 months ago

I migrated our company off Terraform to Pulumi as a direct result of the acquisition.

tietjens|2 months ago

How has it been? Sincere question.

EarthIsHome|2 months ago

Gnome has stagnated significantly.

JeremyNT|2 months ago

I'm not sure this is bad? It's still maintained, and it isn't like there are frequent revolutions in UI design - if it works, it works.

Slow and boring is a pretty nice place to be.

shrubble|2 months ago

The Gnome desktop that shipped with Solaris over two decades ago is just as useful, possibly more useful, as the tablet-oriented hamburger menu UI of today.

Yes, two decades: https://adtmag.com/articles/2003/08/04/solaris-gets-a-gnome-...

tannhaeuser|2 months ago

If only it had stagnated around gnome 2.0.

tristan957|2 months ago

The people on the Red Hat desktop team that work on GNOME are killing it. I think you might not be paying attention. Not every change is visible.

phkahler|2 months ago

>> Gnome has stagnated significantly.

GTK is still alive. It seems like Cosmic desktop with GTK apps will be a reasonable path forward. Of course there's KDE and QT, but I mean as an alternative to those.

aprilnya|2 months ago

Has it? I feel like Gnome has made great progress the last few years

throw10920|2 months ago

Could that be due to increased popularity of KDE?

jamespo|2 months ago

Linux on the desktop isn't a lucrative business

cess11|2 months ago

One thing that's happened is that OpenShift has an IBM stamp of approval, which means it is now available in more organisations, that would otherwise have clung to more obscure mainframes and worse clown platforms.

From my perspective, as someone who is deeply suspicious of IBM in general, that's a plus.

worthless-trash|2 months ago

> no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL

What do you mean by that, like "centos/stream" (aka https://www.centos.org/download/ ) ?

maxloh|2 months ago

CentOS Stream employs a rolling-release model, which is much less stable than RHEL.

The previous main selling point of CentOS was bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL. Red Hat is just killing the distro by moving their focus to a non-existent market. Enthusiasts will choose RHEL, while enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL, which Red Hat could earn money from, or alternatives like Alma or Rocky.

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