RIA Weekly

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show. SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.” Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/splunk-acquire-cloud-monitoring-leader-200100373.html) VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/14/vmware-says-its-looking-to-acquire-pivotal/) Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customers-and-its-own-advocates-alike/) Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-