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Published: July 13, 2019, 2 p.m.

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With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin\\u2019 hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Cot\\xe9 finds video chats annoying, and he can\\u2019t keep all the camera lingo in his head.

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Buy Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book dirt cheap!

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Also:

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• I wish I could turn other people\\u2019s videos off.
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• Makes money, that\\u2019s a good strategy.
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• Security through diversity, is that a thing?
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• Breaking news, public cloud is a good thing.
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• I\\u2019ve been replaced by software.
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• What the fuck do I do with a histogram?
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• Clicking auto fixed the photo fine.
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• Flywheelin\\u2019.
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• You can\\u2019t cut costs by cutting your employees legs off.
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• It was something about FStop, and then I lost it.
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Relevant to your interests

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• Zoom problems.
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• Cloudera Sees Inspiration in Red Hat, Goes "All-In" on Open Source.\\n\\n
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  • Not sure what exactly this covers, vs. Hadoop itself. I guess all the commercialized stuff wrapped around Hadoop?
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• IBM finalized Red Hat acquisition:\\n\\n
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  • Charles Fitzgerald aptly plays the part of Charles Fitzgerald.
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  • Related, upcoming webinar: Red Hat on free software and pay software.
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• British Airways faces record \\xa3183m fine for data breach - not sure what the HACK actually was.
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• Symantec shares soar on report that Broadcom is in talks to acquire the security software maker.
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• For filler topic.
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• Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? - Low quality architecture and code means you can\\u2019t change as quickly and as much as you\\u2019d like. is \\u201ctech debt\\u201d a good metaphor, or drying cement?
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• Gates Says Steve Jobs Cast \\u2018Spells\\u2019 to Keep Apple From Dying - \\u201cminor wizard.\\u201d
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• AWS makes another acquisition, grabbing TSO Logic - \\u201cThe company takes data about workloads and applications and helps customers find the most efficient place to run them by measuring requirements like resource needs against cost to find the right balance at any given time.\\u201d CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW.
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• Meet the Great Duke of... DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware - I mean, security seems hard to get right 100% of the time? Related: problems in ruby-land, and JavaScript.
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• QA Acquires Cloud Academy to Create a World-leading Corporate Skills Platform.
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Nonsense

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• The 4 Stages of Culture Shock - maturity cycle for living abroad.
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• @Clipart1994bot.
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Sponsors

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Conferences, et. al.

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• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
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• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Cot\\xe9 will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They\\u2019re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)\\u2026and back to a lot of US cities.
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• Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
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• DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
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Recommended Jobs from Listeners

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• Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
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Listener Feedback

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• Cot\\xe9 is not coordinated enough to include that this episode.
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SDT news & hype

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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations

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• Matt: *[*Endeavour](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2701582/)*;* The Terror **(again!).
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• Cot\\xe9: Old Navy for the kids.
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Outro: \\u201csoftwaredefinedsong,\\u201d *[*charleswhollien](https://github.com/charleswhollien)*.*

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