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HashiCorp's acquisition by IBM raises questions about the reasons why it wasn't bought by Google Cloud.

Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Do you really, really want to be in the “hybrid cloud deployment” business?