Samsung goes Marie Kondo on its public cloud outfit: Does this bring me Joyent? Nope. Then in the bin it goes

Samsung has killed off its Joyent public cloud – its unsuccessful answer to Amazon and Google's public cloud services – almost three years to the day after it acquired the biz. Joyent is well known for being the first corporate steward of node.js, as well as developing container management software, though it was seen as being …

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Did they stop applying updates and security patches two months after customers buy hosting?

[J27]

Yeah...

I've been using node for ages and I never even knew that Joyent had a public cloud product. I can't believe they failed to use that product to advertise their paid products. And I make architecture decisions at my employer that builds SaS products. exactly the market they needed to be aware of this. People can't use your product if they don't know it exists.

[Gedvondur]

Re: Yeah...

Yet every time you you look on tech forums, they are full of moaning about "marketing bullshit." Like they would be using any of their favorite products *without* marketing.

[tip pc]

Re: Yeah...

That’s likely because your an architect.

Our architects all have similar problems.

It’s funny when your on a project with more architects than doers and have to tell the architects how to build the solution.

[Anonymous Coward]

Joyent no joy

Companies are known by what they do. Joyent had to be relieved of node.js because they were stifling it due to neglect. Joyent viciously attacked the 2nd or 3rd most prolific contributor to node because they were employed by a competitor, Strongloop. Joyent makes people weep.

[Dan 55]

I am shocked that Samsung bought a software company and then didn't know what to do with it.

[Anonymous Coward]

No mystery

Samsung + software = fail