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CEO of Kolide here.

This announcement couldn't have come at a crazier time...today I planned on announcing our intentions to enter the MDM product space.

Our MDM is meant to be a new fresh take on device management that puts end-users in the driver seat. It's user focused device management and we are applying everything we've learned from our security product to the management space.

https://blog.kolide.com/kolide-mdm-for-those-that-dont-need-...

If you are interested in trying out what we are releasing later this year, read the post, and get on the list https://www.kolide.com/mdm/

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>Our MDM is meant to be a new fresh take on device management that puts end-users in the driver seat.

Oh, so that means I can pay you a few hundred for a copy of your software and put it on my own ESXi system and have absolutely zero further dependency on you specifically or the internet in general beyond if I eventually decide to pay for further updates right? I'll have total control over all my data?

Oh, it's just another subscription service 3rd party dependency lock-in thing? Oh.

Am I missing something, or by “crazier time” do you mean “standby while I advertise my product”?

I understand where you are coming from but it's more like, "standby while I share something my team and I have been working really hard on that is relevant to the news and who are interested in MDM".

I'm genuinely curious: how is that not advertising your product?

not all advertising is soullessly cynical

It's advertising, but perfectly legitimate in the context. Many people in this thread are probably looking for an alternative now, so they might well be happy to see this mention.

Besides that it's also a personal story "I've been working on a competitor for a while and this is weirdly nicely timed".

A few months ago burtonator was under almost every article advertising his project ("Javascript? During the development of Polar Bookshelf (getpolarized.io) I have used Javascript!"), which I personally found a lot more annoying.

In the sea of close to 100% of pointless ads you quickly forget that they are actually supposed to make you aware of something you want. For many people in this thread that has probably succeeded.

Unless it allows you to own all your data - how it is different and what is the guarantee they won't be acquired in the same way and leave all their customers to look for a third service?

It is crazy timing from his point of view. Crazy perfect timing. He was going to advertise it anyway, and now he has lots more people that would be interested. And in fact, it is relevant to this news.

I like to kid that every time we read "Google bought company A", that salespeople from Company A's competitors get busy.

Until Company B gets bought out...

His offering is highly germane to the conversation, and quite likely helpful to a lot of people reading through the comments. We're (largely) a community of makers, and it's totally fine to mention what you've made in the appropriate contexts. This is but one (good) example.

I'm confused why this comment is here.

Literally a startup themed website, literally a thread about a related product. It's kind of obvious why it's here.

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