[georgyo]

Splunk is a great product with horrible sales and business team.

The reason why them _trying_ to get off it is because they have a bunch of stuff that is easy and works in splunk, but don't want to pay the exorbitant licensing, or pay even more to increase their use.

But getting off a good product is hard, and they will continue to use it and even pay.

The kind of thing Cisco, Oracle, and IBM love are companies with very expensive products in which no development needs to happen and customers cannot move away easily.

[sumtechguy]

> with horrible sales and business team

I was in one of these meetings with like 20 engineers on how amazing this thing was. We knew that because we already used it it quite extensively. The very extremely hyper sales rep kept ducking out of the meeting every 5 mins. I recognized it for what it was. He was ducking out to do bumps of coke so he could be more pumped to sell us more stuff.

[baz00]

I think we had the same sales rep.

[paws]

Yikes. The only other time I heard about the Splunk sales team in the news, it sounded pretty bad also.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/12/splunk_sales_discrimi...

[IG_Semmelweiss]

jesus, that's incredible

[baz00]

Yeah it's easier getting rid of chlamydia than Splunk sales reps.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Chlamydia is actually quite easy to get rid of.