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Hello again, welcome to #037. Today we have 43 subscribers, so we're +1. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you're reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.)

See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and @cote.

Sponsors

• Come check out cloud hijinks at 451's HCTS conference Oct 6th and 8th. I'll be speaking there on developer relations and marketing. Use the code MC200 to get $200 off when registering. Only one person has taken advantage of this snazzy code, so: come on, sign up!

• Come hear me yammer on about DevOps: I'll be in Chicago (Sep 23rd) and Toronto (Nov 18th) giving my DevOps and cloud talk with TechTarget

Follow-up

• 451 Deal Analysis of HP buying Eucalyptus
• As I mentioned yesterday, we had a Deal Analysis in the works. Here it is.
• That vRealize report is finally up. I spend much of the time going over the strategic reasons for doing this and much less on the actual features. I figure there'll be more at the BCN VMworld so we'll look to cover it more in-depth then. Coincidently, I had an end-user inquiry today that talked all about vRealize and its competitors. The customer was well trained: they said "vRealize" and never "vCAC"!
• This is the kind of feedback I find most valuable (I'm serious!):

@cote @bernardgolden I'm definitely buying one of those turkeys on the way home from work.

— Brent Smithurst (@brentsmi) September 12, 2014

Tech & Work World

Quick Hits

• Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS and teams up with Pivotal | ZDNet - the PaaSes are droppin' like flies. It either means a winner is emerging, or the idea is shaky...or both!
• OpTier – an opportunistic option for SAP? - An APM company looks to be biting the dust too, with SAP scooping up the assets.
• Why Tableau is crushing it for 21st century analysis - man, I wish I could take a few days of Tableau training and get a license. I bet it'd help my day-to-day out a lot.
• Concerning VMware’s vCloud Air: It's all about choice - Trevor Pott goes to town on vAir. He likes it!
• September 08, 2014 at 04:00AM - devopsreactions - hey, it's funny.
  -HP buys Eucalyptus | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing - Lydia at Gartner's take.

Fun & IRL

No fun today, just work. I'm going to go have a martini.