IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it

IBM has finally completed the $6.4 billion takeover of Hashicorp days after Britain's competition regulator gave the corporate marriage its seal of approval. The eye-wateringly expensive buy was first signposted in April to make IBM's hybrid cloud platform more "comprehensive," with Hashicorp's infrastructure-as-code (IaC) …

[Andy Mac]

Good news

This gives another reason to give people who come to me wanting to use Terraform why they shouldn’t.

[John Hawkins]

Re: Good news

Terraform is a bit hacky and pretty weird to code, but after using it for a few months I've found it surprisingly useful and relatively light weight compared to e.g. Crossplane which I have used in the past.

I don't trust IBM though - Oracle and Java spring to mind here - so I hope OpenTofu succeeds (I also hope they change to a better name; 'OpenTofu' is sounds like something a committee would come up with).

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Good news

Its not out of bounds to think that IBM will switch the license back and try to re-merge OpenTofu and participate in that project.

[MikeLowrey]

Re: Good news

Wait you don't thrust IBM but Oracle? So IBM has open sourced tons of stuff and contributes to various open source projects on Apache Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, and Oracle is the company that whatever they buy they kill it, from mysql to java and other bits. I rooted for IBM to buy sun microsystem so Java is under a prober company.. but we got what we got .. tell that yo everyone pissed off about the namespace rename on javax vs jakarta. So yeah dude, you got your view wrong.

[Ryan D]

Opentofu

Is the way to role. Easy to work with and not a big blue nightmare.

[Dinanziame]

How is IBM still a thing?

I really can't fathom why anybody wanting anything would go "I know, let's work with IBM"

[sschuchart]

Re: How is IBM still a thing?

Its easier to think of IBM as a 20 different companies, rather than as an entity. Some of them are good to deal with. Some, not so much.

[Irongut]

Re: How is IBM still a thing?

I've been in the IT industry for about 30 years. The last time I dealt with anything IBM was in the late 90s and that was me writing embedded software for them.

IBM have not been relevant in over 25 years and this purchase will not change that.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: How is IBM still a thing?

You will frequently come across purchasing guidelines stipulating that suppliers have to have a minimum size and number of years of experience. And in many situations this is not a bad thing: who can provide redress when things go wrong. It's starting to break down with the number of open source projects being used for important tasks. But, as Eric Raymond pithily describes in The Cathedral and The Bazaar managers are still going to be frightened by the thought that their project will be supported by geeks working on things in their spare time in the middle of the night. Fortunately, next to the SaaS nightmares, we're also seeing consulting companies able to make a living from implementing and supporting open source projects, without trying to own them,