Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie, JP Morgethal, Futurum Group president Dan O’Brien and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the terms of a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) that will allow a $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks to proceed.

Then the gang takes a look at how much energy is being consumed by open source OpenTelemetry agent software that is being used to instrument applications before diving into a study from Microsoft that finds we’re all working too hard.