Tech Strategy: Past, Present, Future
Episode 552 · December 26th, 2025 · 1 hr 16 mins
About this Episode
This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars?
Rundown
- Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
- Hardened Images for Everyone
- Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS
- Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros.
- Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs
Conferences
- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
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