VMware to Acquire Bitnami

I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?

Daniel and Erica are two of the most thoughtful and kindest founders I know. We got to know each other during our yc batch (w13) and it’s been a great privilege to have Daniel as an advisor for my company.<p>Can’t think of a better match - the company that pioneered the App Store for servers joining the company that pioneered&#x2F;commercialized virtualization.

My experience with Bitnami images was that it was very quick and easy to get up and running but trying to configure configuration on the server was pretty difficult because of how many bitnami configuration files there were spread out everywhere and not where you&#x27;d expect them

Bitnami has their announcement at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitnami.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitnami.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h...</a>

I wonder when Rancher will get acquired? Its just a matter of time. And VMWare seems to be buying a lot of these types of companies.

So... what happens now with all the employees that have stock options?

VMware is going to crush with heptio and bitnami teamed up

Congrats VMWare

How much?