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by spprashant 536 days ago
Anyone know what company he may be talking about?
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C-programmer 536 days ago
Inspect element on https://web.archive.org/web/20240827031455/https://ottertune...

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> I'm to sad to announce that @OtterTuneAI is officially dead. Our service is shutdown and we let everyone go today (1mo notice). I can't got into details of what happened but we got screwed over by a PE Postgres company on an acquisition offer. https://x.com/andy_pavlo/status/1801687420330770841

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yencabulator 536 days ago
Because that was a little too subtle and I was sufficiently curious:

view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20240827031455/https://ottertune...

scroll until you see ASCII art

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swyx 536 days ago
needed that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnterpriseDB note the PE's
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spprashant 536 days ago
Oh wow, didnt know pe-postgres-company had any negative rep.

Anyone care to explain how a company can screw another company via a acquisition offer?

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senderista 536 days ago
Well, there's a leading Postgres company which is owned by not one but two PE firms...
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