John Furrier34
Capital Markets are hot in #cloud; Question: Who is the next company to get acquired in OpenStack?
Robert Cathey
Ha! Fishing for tips? :-)
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Blue box (are you ready for that Jess?)
Jesse Proudman
I believe you'll see a huge wave of new financing and market consolidation in #OpenStack in the next 18 months.
Robert Cathey
@HPCloudAngel Argh! My afternoon as all planned out, and now you've ruined it!
Jesse Proudman
@HPCloudAngel I'll look for a term sheet in my email later today.
Boris Renski
the more interesting question is who is the next big company to make an OpenStack acquisition
John Furrier
@zer0tweets That is great question
Boris Renski
VMware just announced their distribution, so they will likely wait it out for a while
John Furrier
@zer0tweets I see VMware embracing openstack and docker as testiment to the open model that customers want I would see VMware doing some deal in the space esp with Cloudfoundry trying to find it's legs
Jesse Proudman
@zer0tweets @furrier Look at the OpenStack Platinum Sponsor list. I expect you'll see news from each before the end of 2015.
Paul Gillin
Where is Cisco in all this? Their silence is deafening.
Boris Renski
OK... who will remain independent 18 months from now. @scottsanchez - Metacloud will probably still be out there? We, at Mirantis, also... who else?
Niki Acosta
@zer0tweets I wonder if the NSA knows.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
HP will still be out there. ;)
John Furrier
@blueboxjesse top sponsors are HP, Nebula, Juniper, Brocade, and A10; hmm Juniper and Brocade merging?
Steve Noble
ugh.. Juniper and Brocade.. not a good mix imho.
Boris Renski
@HPCloudAngel I don't doubt that =)
Steve Noble
ugh.. Juniper and Brocade.. not a good mix imho.