Re:RethinkDB is shutting down
by scrollaway on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:58PM
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You can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.
Re:RethinkDB is shutting down
by statictype on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:44PM
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Right. My point was more that being open source in its own isn't always enough. Having a company behind it makes a difference to many people - more than the distinction between open vs closed.
I was able to sell our company on Cassandra because there is a Datastax there to support it when the shit hits the fan.
Of course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable
Re:RethinkDB is shutting down
by scrollaway on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:59PM
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You cannot draw that conclusion from the data at hand. There's plenty of closed source product companies that shut down because they didn't manage to make a profitable business as well.
Red Hat's market cap is almost $15B and they're worth $2B. Definitely not incompatible.
This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2".
I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?
If a project is open source then who is committed to helping you support and maintain it? You essentially need to have a team to do it.
If there's a company behind it, it gives you assurances.
Especially for a small company that needs to focus on building a product rather than committing features and bug fixes to their database