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Episode 68: Too old for the buffet


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    • If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.
    • HPE on the block?
      • Coverage: “several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright”
      • Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE
      • Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term.
      • Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private.
      • YAHOO!
        • What’s Verizon doing over there?
        • Coté’s notes on this: one and two.
        • ChefConf
          • Unified products as Automate
          • Certifications!
          • Lots of videos
          • Recommendations
            • Brandon: Stranger Things
            • Matt: Utopia/Homeland2. My kids love Tim Tams. Manly. http://fan-o-rama.com/
            • Coté: Field Notes Byline, reporter's notebook.
            • ...more
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