Episode 213: The inglorious cloud basterds

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 9 a.m.

We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Cot\xe9 talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread.

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Mood board:

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  • This is a New Year\u2019s resolution we can all get behind: it\u2019s time to just give up on some stuff.
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  • Man, this coffee is bad.
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  • Carbohydrate Cot\xe9 is angry.
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  • Cot\xe9 gets his birthday wrong.
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  • You\u2019re really just pretty negative.
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  • Our man in Tanzu-land Cotem.
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  • After the headline, that article didn\u2019t need to be written more.
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  • I\u2019m not going to get into it, so here I go.
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  • The Turn the hydra head into a nanny acquisition strategy.
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  • Man, I should have just started with the bread.
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n
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  1. Tanzu Cot\xe9 - VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition.
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  3. Google buying Salesforce acid-dream - Google could acquire Salesforce and spin out its cloud business to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft, analyst predicts\n\n
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    • ServiceNow!
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    • Sort of examples the vagueness of Google\u2019s Cloud Corporate Strategy.
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    • Drunk under a lamp post M&A click-bait strategy.
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  5. \u201cWe only want to be #1 and #2 in a market.\u201d\n\n
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    • Known fix: just redefine your market so you\u2019re number one or number two.
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    • Share price premium for # 1 or #2 in the market.
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    • Pay people cheaper than you get paid to do things fallacy.
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  7. Google 2023 deadline for Google Cloud to beat Amazon.
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Ourto: \u201cI love bread,\u201d Parry Gripp.