EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
My first reaction was to say "wtf" out loud.<p>It's just that EMC and Pivotal Labs to me represents kind of opposites in the spectrum: EMC is the established old-school hardware company, while Pivotal Labs is the cool software consultancy that the cool startups hire for web-apps. So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that…<p>"Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make much sense: would EMC be interested in making consulting money for agile training? That doesn't seem to be at the same scale of the rest of the business…<p>And "hardware as a service" sound like it would be more suited for veterans from the cloud providers they might want to compete with.<p>Surprising to say the least.