Cisco will not be out competed in the expensive tech industry, so they had to buy them.

Imagine a merger of Cisco and Oracle...

I'd rather set my bank on fire.

They would do that for you for free

Oracle? Cisco? Do something for somebody else for free? Are you mad? They'll license the fire, and calculate the fees based on volume of air heated.

… and then sue passers-by for pirating their pre-warmed air.

come now, you really think cisco would do that?

fail to monetize the light?

I'm sure they'll bundle it or even integrate it with AppDynamics

Most likely they will let AppD die.

Why? I haven't used AppD in ~7 years, but I remember it being one of the most pleasurable APMs (but also ridiculously expensive)

It seems to me the marriage between APM and logging would be a home run.

Splunk bought SignalFX a while ago and they are trying to lean in hard on the observability craze and piggybacking on OpenTelemetry. I wasn't involve heavily in this migrate to Splunk Observability Cloud project about a year ago but it was a shit show and half-baked and ultimately they dumped it in favor of DataDog IIUC (I had since changed jobs but kept in touch with ex-colleagues).

* https://www.splunk.com/en_us/about-splunk/acquisitions/signa...

* https://opentelemetry.io/

* https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/conf-splunklive/introducin...

More expensive and less innovative.

AppDynamics is the one thing I've ever used where the auto-tuning actually worked. Wish I could still use it.