VMware has a Pivotal moment in its quest to be 'leading enabler of Kubernetes'

VMware has completed its acquisition of Pivotal – or re-acquisition, since Pivotal was spun out from VMware in 2012 – and has appointed Ray O'Farrell as leader of its new Modern Applications Platform business unit. O'Farrell is a VMware veteran who was CTO until August 2019, when the Pivotal acquisition was announced, and then …

[well meaning but ultimately self defeating]

surely enablr

nuff said

[IGnatius T Foobar !]

Welcome to the new monopoly.

AWS CEO Andy Jassy recently stated with respect to K8s: "I don't believe in one tool to rule the world," hoping instead to keep customers on its AWS-specific container platform

Yes he does. As long as it's *their* tool. AWS is the new Evil Empire, as Microsoft before it and IBM before that.