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“Digital transformation and the applications that drive it should not be restricted only to cloud and software giants,” Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president and general manager of Modern Applications Platform Business Unit at VMware stated in the announcement. “We believe that modern application development solutions and practices need to be easily accessible to everyday enterprises across the globe. With Pivotal’s developer capabilities as the foundation, we’ll focus on delivering consumable, enterprise-ready cloud native offerings to customers to help them achieve better business outcomes.”
Pivotal’s offerings will be vital to VMware Tanzu, a collaboration that brings Kubernetes containers and VMware virtual machines together in a single management platform to enhance enterprise solutions and enable improvements in developer productivity, according to the VMware press release.
“Pivotal has fundamentally changed how the world’s biggest brands build and manage software with a focus on developer productivity through platform abstractions and development techniques as well as connecting the business with the developer,” Edward Hieatt, senior vice president of customer success at Pivotal, said in the press release.
“The combination of Pivotal and VMware offers the most comprehensive application platform in the industry and is a win for our customers, a win for Pivotal, and a win for VMware,” he continued. “We’re excited to team up with VMware to help more enterprises become like modern software companies by adopting DevOps and Lean techniques developed by internet giants and the startup community.”
After the acquisition, Pivotal’s Class will now operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of VMware. Pivotal’s Class A common stockholders are entitled to receive $15 per share for each share held and Pivotal’s Class B stockholder, Dell Technologies, received nearly 7.2 million shares of VMware Class B common stock.
Numerous mutual customers have already reacted positively to the news of the acquisition.
“By working with both Pivotal and VMware, we’ve been able to completely transform how we write software for our military and government customers,” said Todd Probert, vice president for C2, space and intelligence at Raytheon. “Combining these companies under a single umbrella is going to make it possible for my team to get code to our customers even faster and easier.”
“Pivotal has fundamentally changed how the world’s biggest brands build and manage software with a focus on developer productivity through platform abstractions and development techniques as well as connecting the business with the developer,” Hieatt concluded.
Back in August of 2017, VMware announced its collaboration with Pivotal and Google Cloud on the Pivotal Container Service (PKS). PKS allows enterprises and service providers to deliver Kubernetes on VMware vSphere and Google Cloud Platform with compatibility to Google Container Engine (GKE).
PKS will feature cross cloud security and also gives users compatibility to Google Container Engine powered by Kubernetes for full management.
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