They'll absorb the talent. Expand IBMs offering of Vault-ish product while basically reselling Vault as a line item addition to their existing line items.
Less pain for IBM from license drama and the selling of open source Vault with an IBM tweak to a MUCH larger user base with zero sales expense.
IBM gets all Vault talent
Hashi gets massive market without sales
Hashi is $800MM revenue because of 80% sales and marketing.
IBM is backing OpenTofu and OpenBao AFAIK. They're supposedly one of the main reasons for the licensing change. Cisco was looking to buy HC years ago, I would bet they're still interested (wonder if it will be for less money...)
IBM is a good guess but it would probably be more accurate at this stage to point at anyone that missed the cloud wars and are claiming to be a “multi-cloud manager.”
Definitely IBM, maybe Nutanix, possibly Broadcom. Hell, maybe even Cisco.
Based upon some research into numbers...
They'll absorb the talent. Expand IBMs offering of Vault-ish product while basically reselling Vault as a line item addition to their existing line items.
Less pain for IBM from license drama and the selling of open source Vault with an IBM tweak to a MUCH larger user base with zero sales expense.
IBM gets all Vault talent Hashi gets massive market without sales
Hashi is $800MM revenue because of 80% sales and marketing.