[dblooman]

This seemed like an inevitability given the reliance on enterprise customers and the move to maximise the revenue from Terraform with the recent license change. They have made a round of layoffs, so at least some cost saving has already been done to make it more appealing for a sale. The main challenge from an acquisition like this will be maintaining the community around terraform providers, if that drops off, i'm not sure there will be as many developers coming into the hashicorp ecosystem.

[jrochkind1]

> the move to maximise the revenue from Terraform with the recent license change

In fact, it makes me wonder if the point of the recent license change to maximize revenue may have been to make them a more attractive acquisition.

[tedivm]

The Terraform providers, and the underlying library for building them, are still open source. This is why OpenTofu didn't have to fork them. Considering they're also used by Pulumi I don't see the provider community going away any time soon, but I definitely see them detaching themselves from Hashicorp.

[fishnchips]

Or - IBM mends the rift with OpenTofu for their own good.

[glenngillen]

The discussion here when the license change occurred, from people with throwaway accounts claiming to be from HashiCorp, was that Terraform revenue was not the motivator... it was because IBM was selling Vault.