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Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup (thestack.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the entrepreneurship-at-its-finest dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: Mesosphere, creator of the world's first data center operating system, has confirmed significant strategic investment from Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mesosphere, built on the open-source Apache Mesos project, closed $73.5 million in a Series C funding round. With HPE and Microsoft leading the round, the startups total funding to date tallies at almost $126 million. The operating system is currently used at mega-scale by customers including Verizon, Netflix and Twitter. It also underpins Microsoft's Azure Container solutions.

27 comments

  1. A cloudy future. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It would be nice to know, what makes this OS special among OS, beyond Cloud?

  2. Will get crushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google Omega will crush this startup. This is nothing but a tweak of some previously existing open source software, hardly worth this kind of investment.

    1. Re:Will get crushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have mod points, but I can't decide if this is astroturfing (especially as second post) or informative.

    2. Re:Will get crushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why are people here so worried about "astroturfing"?

      First of all, no company is going to pay anyone to come to Slashdot of all places, wait for a relevant story to come along, and then post a single comment as Anonymous Coward where it ends up at 0 by default and likely won't be seen by 95% of the ever-dwindling number of users here. Trying to market to or sway the opinion of the 6 readers here that they'll reach with such a comment is fucking dumb, and they know this.

      And even in the contrived and hypothetical case that some company actually did pay somebody to post comments like that here, it wouldn't fucking matter! If the product is relevant, then a link to it from here is useful. If the company holds a given opinion or point of view, than it's a valid opinion or point of view to hold! Such comments would be perfectly fine here, regardless of whether or not there's payment involved.

      "Astroturfing" doesn't exist here, because this is a fucking idiotic place to engage in the practice.

    3. Re: Will get crushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This whole article reads like a slashvertisement. Pretty good chance the post is a shill. Even if not, it's a fanboi, which is arguably worse.

      Downmod this shit.

    4. Re: Will get crushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do links in Slashdot posts still give SEO benefits? Or do they use nofollow?

    5. Re:Will get crushed by Desler · · Score: 1

      You think Slashdot is relevant enough for anyone to bother astroturfing? Awww, how cute.

  3. "first data center OS" by iggymanz · · Score: 2

    first data center OS - oh really?

    do tell how this is different from clustered OS from decades ago that were on global networks?

    1. Re:"first data center OS" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's made by the cloud for the cloud, MacLeod.

    2. Re:"first data center OS" by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      SET DEF SomeOtherVaxOnAnotherPlanet:[DriveSomebodyToldMeAbout]

    3. Re:"first data center OS" by bigdady92 · · Score: 1

      which ones? Mesh Networks? Star Networks? P2P Networks?

      We have moved beyond mere networking in those terms, we are now talking in terms of SPHERES!

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    4. Re:"first data center OS" by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      We have moved beyond mere networking in those terms, we are now talking in terms of SPHERES!

      It was only yesterday we were talking about SQUARES! So much for the future of CUBISM.

    5. Re: "first data center OS" by Curlsman · · Score: 1

      More like

      $ edit somevaxonanotherplanet::drivesomebodytoldmeabout:[reallyimporantfolder]criticalfile.dat

    6. Re: "first data center OS" by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      Since we're being picky, you forgot the /noeverlastinggobbstopper /nometapopbottle part.

    7. Re:"first data center OS" by rossdee · · Score: 1

      "It's made by the cloud for the cloud, MacLeod."

      Actually the mesosphere is Far Above the Clouds...

    8. Re:"first data center OS" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It also much cooler than any normal Could can ever be. It can cause Condensation for anyone executing it.

    9. Re: "first data center OS" by Curlsman · · Score: 1

      Well, those ARE the defaults.

  4. Shitty summary! At least link to Apache Mezos! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here is the URL that the fucking summary could not be arsed into linking to:

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    https://mesos.apache.org/

    Apache Mezos

    At least I don't see any mention of systemd on that page. That already makes it more appealing than Linux.

    1. Re:Shitty summary! At least link to Apache Mezos! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can see why they didn't put the link in the summary, it's to disguise this as news instead some boring ass shit that nobody cares about.

    2. Re: Shitty summary! At least link to Apache Mezos! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Long live the king.

      Indeed. FreeBSD is gaining the best Linux users day in and day out thanks to systemd. Systemd is the best thing to have ever happened to FreeBSD.

    3. Re: Shitty summary! At least link to Apache Mezos! by jon3k · · Score: 2

      Systemd benefits 99% of people, the 1% being old fogeys who refuse to adapt with times. Well, let them perish, and let a new generation of programmers who don't have to worry about cobbling together hacked up scripts and instead can focus on actually improving the user experience take their places. Long live the king.

      Ah yes, solving the problem no one actually had and complaining about some red herring ("hacked together scripts"). I've spent more time fighting with systemd in the last year than I did in 15 years of init scripts.

  5. At mega-scale by OzPeter · · Score: 2

    I really have no idea what "at mega-scale" means,I assume that it means used by some really large but unspecified number. But seeing things like this always reminds me of the Calvin quote Verbing weirds language

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    1. Re:At mega-scale by Desler · · Score: 1

      It means nothing. It's a buzzword.

    2. Re:At mega-scale by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It is like web-scale, but mega.

    3. Re:At mega-scale by fsagx · · Score: 1

      Ha! They've painted themselves into a corner of obsolescence. Our GIGA-SCALE OS, named Ginormous Gui 16.04 LTS, releases in a couple weeks. (TERRA-SCALE is still in alpha).

  6. Netflix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Didn't they very publicly move to AWS a few years back? If so, then aren't (at least knowingly) using Mesosphere.