This week, we discuss VMware’s Announcements, SUSE goes private and some thoughts on streaming services. Plus, Matt provides an update on the repercussions of spilled Orange Juice. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 429 Runner-up Titles Matt Ray Vibe Ethically flexible And one more thing me Is it new? You’re gold plating your gold. Hello World and my Mom’s Blog SAP known for being nimble I guess I am excited There’s no way you sold 50,000 Chinese knock off water piks in Australia. Rundown Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable VMware Broadcom's $61B planned VMware purchase clears U.S., UK Introducing vSAN Max | VMware VMware Expands Tanzu to Accelerate App Delivery at Enterprise Scale VMware Explore 2023 Media Kit - VMware News and Stories VMware edges towards multi-cloud, adds AI side quest SUSE EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE SUSE Manager Ansible Integration Becomes Fully Supported Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel What Happened to Wirecutter? Relevant to your Interests YouTube is adding chat, highlights, and Shorts to NFL Sunday Ticket Hopin Events and Session Products Sold for $15 Million 80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x Will Broadcom’s pending purchase overhang VMware Explore? VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI under Broadcom’s wing System Initiative Code Now Open Source How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips Report: Threads app to launch website version this week - 9to5Mac Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences Amazon Worker Has A Witty Take On Return-To-Office Policy Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘in-person time policy’ will crack down on Meta’s remote work rebels Nonsense All signs point to a late summer COVID wave American States As Real People Generated by AI LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it Listener Feedback What is AWS after the Chasm? Conferences Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop, sign up! October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Costco | Acquired Podcast Matt: Lenovo Go Wireless Split Keyboard, decent clone of Microsoft Sculpt keyboard Photo Credits Artwork