Based on Henshall's email, he's looking into spinning off Octoblu
currently working on potential options for the Octoblu platform, which may include divesting this product and team
You can make multiple solid arguments on why such an approach would be a flawed one, however I will stay away from that now. I wanted to see if posters here would be able to chime in wiht their predictions on what and when will happen with Octoblu?
The company went from nothing to billions in revenue under MT.
Unfortunate that it took the company so long to make a decision. In the meantime, millions spent on salaries, offices, AWS consumption, and general costs of it distracting the company from its primary business. 1dye got it right...MarkT was so focused on expanding, costs or overarching strategy be damned, that he bought a strange collection of companies/technologies, and then starved them all to make sure that they really failed.
I wasn't denigrating open source, but rather pointing out that because the code is open source, the Octoblu team could re-establish the technology/product outside of Citrix pretty easily (at least technically...commercially is another question)
Haha! Countless millions are spent on Citrix Cloud when it’s total revenue is a rounding error while no strategy or investment is applied to IoT- the fastest growing segment with applications in every industry and wide consensus that the market is multiple trillions in the coming years. Open source is bad? The 90s called and wants their crappy overpriced products back - like Citrix
Octoblu is based on open source code. If the mustachioed one and team believe in it enough, then they can invest their own time & money in trying to make it work as a business. The team could also be an interesting acquihire for someone else.
Octoblu didn't come into Citrix because of the product. It came into CItrix because MT always wanted to hire GR (who was the CEO of Octoblu).
Agreed. MarkT began the downfall of Citrix back in the mid 2000s with all the BS West Coast acquisitions he made (sans Expertcity). Those acquisitions were never integrated into the Citrix culture. That was the beginning of the end when Mark became enamored with the SV lifestyle and his view that he was the second coming of Steve Jobs.
His love of the Poo BS artists didn't help either. Citrix had a long standing policy of not outsourcing work until the Pajeets overthrew Russ and the other old time engineeing management. After years of agreeing with that philosophy, Mark got on board and sold his soul to the SJW god of diversity for diversity's sake instead of just wanting to build a good product.
Octoblu is a stinking festering pile of sh--, dung, feces, trash, crap.
it not worth the toilet paper stain its wiped on, has no technical value, and a total waste of binary bits.
another multi-million dollar fiasco started by Mark T since he was impressed the conference room would light up when he walked into the room...talk about a god complex.
All of Mark's buddies got paid. I'm no big fan of the recent management changes, but I really don't understand all the love Mark gets from people on here.
octoblu is a convuluted pile of garbage, cant believe they bought, but that Thor guy sure got paid
Nothing will happen. There will be no further money spent on it. Adds zero value vs using existing market products from Azure or AWS. It will soon be forgotten.