Re:RethinkDB is shutting down
by bryanlarsen on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:50AM
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"we can build some excellent products together in the future."
So in other words you're not going to continue to work on Horizon and Rethink, or at least if you do they are secondary priorities? Ugh.
Slava did the right thing; his first responsibility is to his employees, not his users, but this really sucks for us users.
For us, it would probably have been better to shut down abruptly. The community would have scrambled. Some employees would find work in companies that used RethinkDB, and maintenance would have continued the same way that Apache was developed ~20 years ago. Some would have grabbed support contracts from users. And some would have moved on.
So in other words you're not going to continue to work on Horizon and Rethink, or at least if you do they are secondary priorities? Ugh.
Slava did the right thing; his first responsibility is to his employees, not his users, but this really sucks for us users.
For us, it would probably have been better to shut down abruptly. The community would have scrambled. Some employees would find work in companies that used RethinkDB, and maintenance would have continued the same way that Apache was developed ~20 years ago. Some would have grabbed support contracts from users. And some would have moved on.