Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)

With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses.

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Conferences, et. al.

• Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
• Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
• Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting!
• Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
• Oct 22nd - Milan! Pivotal Cloud Native Tour - free to attend! Coté and Jakob get your all cloud natived up!
• Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam.
• Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th.
• Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture.
• Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté.

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