Looks like we'll have to update <a href="https://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf</a> again.<p>The Talko team made awesome contributions to the Erlang AWS library (<a href="https://github.com/talko/erlcloud" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/talko/erlcloud</a>) — huge props for that.<p>Also, glad we (<a href="https://sameroom.io" rel="nofollow">https://sameroom.io</a>) didn't integrate with them, we almost did.
I worked with people at Microsoft who then joined Talko - I'm confident this is just an acquihire if Ray isn't coming along. It's funny because those people basically left Microsoft only to come back to Microsoft, so it's a great setup for those employees since they'll get probably a nice bonus out of it; but the product itself went absolutely nowhere, I'm not surprised by this move at all.
Here's the HN discussion for Talko's launch a year and a half ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353988" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353988</a>
This may add some degree of context: <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html</a>
I wonder if Ozzie is coming with, or if he's dumping the company. I always hoped Ozzie would win the power struggle and run Microsoft, but Ballmer carried the day.<p>Maybe Nadella and Ozzie can work together. We might actually see Microsoft start pushing the boundaries of computing again. Nadella seems like a pretty good collaborator from what I've read.