[pdeva1]

Wonder what caused such a high valuation. They definitely didnt seem to have enough revenues to justify it.

[devnonymous]

I would imagine it is not so much about Ansible's general valuation in the industry but about its value for Red Hat (a.k.a -- Red Hat is not buying Ansible for its revenues but for its technology).

[marcoamorales]

What are you buying when the technology is open source?

[devnonymous]

The direction in which the technology evolves. That's also the reason why Red Hat hires a lot of upstream developers[1]. It is easier to tailor your services and offer better support (ie: the revenue stream for Red Hat) for OSS when the developers who write it are on your payroll.

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions
  http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/red-hat-leads-open-source-contributions-to-kernel

[bandrami]

The team and the existing user base

[gsnedders]

Not all of Ansible's technology is open source.

[eeZi]

The dev team?

[stock_toaster]

My guess is ansible tower, along with the dev team and existing customer base for paid services.