Cloud orchestration, Container Orchestration, Kubernetes... I think I am getting old and starting to understand how my parents feel about technology.<p>I am developer, but mostly work on desktop apps, or embedded devices or lataly on some MVC applications. But reading things like<p>"A Container-Native Stack for Modern Applications and Operations
Increase development velocity while simplifying operations."<p>I have no idea what should I imagine and what is it good for...<p>any good introduction or explanation into what is it they actually do?
In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective" rel="nofollow">https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...</a>
Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not under Joyent control.
Hey, maybe Joyent can finally afford to refund the people who supported it when it was textdrive and then went back on their word!
Snarky I know but I'm still bitter about how it was all handled..
Hats off Samsung. You have just acquired a truly world class Engineering team.<p>Congrats to all my former colleagues who are absolutely amazing at their jobs and wonderful people to work with. Samsung looks like a very good match. Hope the transition goes well.
Joyent raised over $125M in venture [0], and no mention of a price? Wonder how the employees faired in this...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/joyent" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/joyent</a>
Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how Joyent's acquisition moves Samsung towards their strategic objectives? In other words, how are they going to exploit this technology (and brain gain)?
I always thought Microsoft/Google or the likes would acquire Joyent as it is good product fit. Microsoft chose linkedin instead :)
For Samsung this is all about IoT .Samsung wants to own both the devices and backend. A good move IMHO
Luckily they did not acquire Node.js<p>edit: I should have been more specific.. when an open source project is under a company's wing and it gets acquired, you don't know what can happen, even under MIT. Look at express recently. Since it's the under the Node Foundation now, this is not a big deal. Had it happened a short time ago, there may have been further turmoil in the community.
I'm sorry but how is this a good fit? What is the synergy here? This particular sentence is incredibly vapid:<p>"By bringing these two companies together we are creating the opportunity to develop and bring to market vertically integrated mobile and IoT services and solutions that deliver extraordinary simplicity and value to our customers."
As I toil away on a node based project that is interfacing with Samsung's Artik platform (both the Artik 10 board and Artik Cloud) I finally decided to call it a night -- check HN real quick -- and discover that Samsung is buying the original stewards of node. I almost thought the lack of sleep was putting me into psychosis...
As a Korean American who also has worked at Samsung headquarters, I think it's more of bad news than good news, no matter how Joyent wants to spin it.<p>Its corporate culture only allows the most cunning, politically savvy person to stay alive and move up the rank, and thus most executives (all if I limit it to small sample of executives I've personally met) fit that model.<p>And shit literally flows downwards, where goals/promises set by them would be pushed downwards and engineers have to take the burden.<p>It doesn't help that Korean society is very hierarchal and based on Confucius principles, where you don't usually challenge older persons and/or someone higher in the rank. This is one example that describes serious problem - <a href="http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/asiana-airlines-crash-a-cockpit-culture-problem/" rel="nofollow">http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/asiana-airlines-crash-a-cockp...</a>.<p>For those of you who are intrigued and have time, I suggest watching Misaeng with English subtitles (<a href="https://www.viki.com/tv/20812c-incomplete-life" rel="nofollow">https://www.viki.com/tv/20812c-incomplete-life</a>). Samsung isn't as bad, but the same hierarchy, verbal abuse, social dynamics, and strict rules on paper format exist.<p>The best outcome would be if they leave Joyent's management and culture alone. But I doubt it.<p>I also have the first-hand experience of their applying the same "consumer electronics" mentality to completely different business which required high-touch sales.<p>There is no denying success of Samsung - multi-billion, international corporation. However, Samsung is only good at generating quality hardware products at mass scale. There have not been success in any sort of software and services. Perhaps they are trying to expand beyond their strengths, and I applaud that effort and they actually do need it, since it's only matter of time Chinese companies will catch up and produce as quality products as Samsung, as Samsung did to Sony. I hope it bears fruits. I hope they can allow Joyent to succeed and thrive, and learn from that.<p>I will see what happens next few years.
"Joyent will operate as a standalone company under Samsung and continue providing cloud infrastructure and software services to its customers"
Best wishes to all at Joyent. Thanks for all your work in the community over the last few years, particularly with node.js. Hopefully Samsung will give you the resources and reach to go on to better things in future.
So this is the moment where everyone with a sufficient device / install marketshare decides they need to buy cloud expertise?<p><i>"Samsung will immediately benefit from having direct access to Joyent’s technology, leadership and talent. Likewise, Joyent will be able to take advantage of Samsung’s scale of business, global footprint, financial muscle and its brand power."</i>
If anyone has a good background, what exactly does Joyent have that is so valuable?<p>It seems that NodeJS has moved out of Joyent. They have hosted container support that seems to run on solaris, which seems interesting, but a bit too much of buzz-wordy from their website.<p>I am not very familiar with this, so will be great if someone can explain a little bit. I read the comments around orchestration, but am more interested in Joyent's value proposition.
Well that sucks. They had a good run, but Samsung's business culture is probably going to ruin them. Just check out some of the stories of their internal software engineering process.
wow, Joyent. Took me a bit to remember what they were doing in the early early days since we're multiple generations or pivots or focus-shifts on now......but it was Textdrive/Textile/Textpattern CMS. Ha. Different times. At least some of that still out there in OSS Land