<story><title>Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible</title><url>http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquired-ansible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mpdehaan2</author><text>Hi!  Thanks for the nice words, folks!&lt;p&gt;Wasn&amp;#x27;t thinking of saying much but I&amp;#x27;ll chime in just once.&lt;p&gt;Was it what I expected when I started? nah, I remember when I thought having a IRC channel with 30 people was crazy-insanely huge, it took off at completely unexpected rates.  Just to get some early looks at it from Seth Vidal and Jeremy Katz (and a commit or two!) was awesome enough for me at the time.  It wasn&amp;#x27;t engineered with the idea that it would be a business at that point at all.&lt;p&gt;BTW, extremly huge thanks for this really should also go to all the contributors out there and people that helped spread ansible around, that was completely unpredictable and a lot of fun watching it take off, especially stuff like seeing so many AM tweets in Japanese and then trying to translate them, or seeing someone automate random vending machines or electronics projects.  This got built trying to help people like you, so a huge thanks for all of the input and help!&lt;p&gt;Anyway, those words mean a lot, and I greatly appreciate them.</text></item><item><author>tomaac</author><text>I really would like to hear his opinion about this. Is this how he imagined Ansible when he started this project?</text></item><item><author>shadeless</author><text>I hope that mpdehaan2 is getting a good chunk from that sale, he really deserved it. He not only made it and built a community but he was very active in the discussions on HN, blog &amp;amp; Gist comments etc.&lt;p&gt;Even though I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to using NixOps&amp;#x2F;GuixOps, I&amp;#x27;m a very happy Ansible user both in personal projects and in the company I&amp;#x27;m working for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smprk</author><text>Congratulations, and thanks for making a simple automation tool that I have come to love!&lt;p&gt;You guys definitely were very active in the community. Enough for the likes of me to also become an active tweet-er. I was pretty excited when @tybstar (Tim Gerla), Ansible&amp;#x27;s co-founder, chimed in once. I hope you guys share some chunk of the sale with him too! ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible</title><url>http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquired-ansible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mpdehaan2</author><text>Hi!  Thanks for the nice words, folks!&lt;p&gt;Wasn&amp;#x27;t thinking of saying much but I&amp;#x27;ll chime in just once.&lt;p&gt;Was it what I expected when I started? nah, I remember when I thought having a IRC channel with 30 people was crazy-insanely huge, it took off at completely unexpected rates.  Just to get some early looks at it from Seth Vidal and Jeremy Katz (and a commit or two!) was awesome enough for me at the time.  It wasn&amp;#x27;t engineered with the idea that it would be a business at that point at all.&lt;p&gt;BTW, extremly huge thanks for this really should also go to all the contributors out there and people that helped spread ansible around, that was completely unpredictable and a lot of fun watching it take off, especially stuff like seeing so many AM tweets in Japanese and then trying to translate them, or seeing someone automate random vending machines or electronics projects.  This got built trying to help people like you, so a huge thanks for all of the input and help!&lt;p&gt;Anyway, those words mean a lot, and I greatly appreciate them.</text></item><item><author>tomaac</author><text>I really would like to hear his opinion about this. Is this how he imagined Ansible when he started this project?</text></item><item><author>shadeless</author><text>I hope that mpdehaan2 is getting a good chunk from that sale, he really deserved it. He not only made it and built a community but he was very active in the discussions on HN, blog &amp;amp; Gist comments etc.&lt;p&gt;Even though I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to using NixOps&amp;#x2F;GuixOps, I&amp;#x27;m a very happy Ansible user both in personal projects and in the company I&amp;#x27;m working for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomaac</author><text>Thanks and congrats! I have been using Ansible since version 0.2 when there were like 5 modules. Since then I have introduced and promoted it to every company I have been working for. Well done!</text></comment>