Episode 30: IBM buys Instana, Salesforce may be buying Slack, AWS takes down a big chunk of the web (again) — and we are all thankful for Slack and Zoom

IBM buys Instana — what does this mean for the monitoring market

https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ibm-acquires-instana-for-its-ai-powered-app-performance-monitoring/

Is this a sign of more monitoring deals to come?

451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase has recorded more than 50 'monitoring' purchases, on average, for each year since 2015, which is two-thirds higher than the number of deals in the first half of the decade.

Salesforce may be buying Slack

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tech/slack-stock-salesforce-acquisition-rumors/index.html

What does this mean for adoption? Did Teams steal Slack’s growth, or did they fumble execution all by themselves? And what does this mean for Zoom? With everyone working from home, we have not seen a real change in remote working compared to before; Slack & Zoom are still Slack & Zoom, just with more people.

(But also: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/25/slack-salesforce )

Amazon outage

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet 

Anchor affected! 

https://twitter.com/discoposse/status/1331667061748211719

Instead of recommendations, we talked about what we are thankful for

Dominic

Slack, Zoom, and all the rest of the apps & services that have made it possible to work remotely this year

Mike

Home office space

Zack

This podcast and our chat channel

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