Congratulations, and welcome to the family, I guess! It's hard for me to connect the dots and harder for others probably that don't know you, but Pivotal is another VMWare brand AIUI (and I know you are a Pivotal Labs employee, big fan of your work)
Pivotal and VMWare are sister companies, -ish. I wondered about whether to mention it but decided at the time to leave it off in case it sent a mixed message.
I think it's quite interesting as few years ago consultancies weren't valued that high and investors wouldn't think that investing into a consultancy is a good idea. With Redha and now Heptio acquisitions it seems like times are changing :) I guess it's really important for those large corporates to acquire engineering talent in bulk and it's probably really healthy for their internal culture to get some fresh ideas.
Anyway, I really liked Heptio strategy of building and supporting some open source tooling to help with your k8s cluster, let's hope their team will continue the tradition! :)
This is actually an interesting point. An acquisition is either a cause for celebration because it's validation of what you built and a potential financial windfall, or it's a sign that your company has fallen behind and needs a soft landing.
