![]() "At the same time, Chef fills a need in the Progress portfolio in DevSecOps, infrastructure, application, and compliance automation that is highly complementary to its existing products." "Chef and Progress share a vision for the future of DevSecOps, and Progress will provide the scale to further drive Chef’s platform forward and deliver additional value to our customers," Barry Crist, Chef's CEO, said in a statement when the sale was announced. While Progress is strong on the developer side of the DevOps model, Chef's strength is on the operations side. Chef has a line of complementary software for automating and helping companies manage their software. Progress's backbone is a platform for developing and deploying business applications that is heavily used in enterprise data centers. We do know that the two companies' products go together like bacon and eggs. We won't know much about publicly traded Progress's post acquisition plans until the deal closes (expected in October), but it's a good bet that Progress will end up open sourcing at least some of its own proprietary offerings after the ink has dried. In case you missed the news, last week Bedford, Massachusetts-based Progress announced it's acquiring the 10-year-old Seattle-based IT infrastructure automation startup for $220 million cash. We won't know until until the deal closes, but one consequence of Chef's pending takeover by Progress might mean there will be more open source software headed for the data center. ![]()
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