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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by SadWebDeveloper on Thursday October 06, 2016 @11:37AM (#12653346)
> what could have they done differently to stay afloat?

Make a private (non-OSS) version optimized for Business (B2B), do external consultant jobs and pretty much ask for donations from the big players/users. This is a common problem from almost every OSS project and so far the only one that is doing this is OpenSSL.

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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by saurik on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:30PM (#12656673)
What are your suggestions for this "optimized for business"?
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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by SadWebDeveloper on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:12PM (#12661779)
Off the top of my head:

1) An Stable "enterprise grade" version which receives fixes and minor performance updates for at least 5 years, maybe even charge extra for another 2-5 years round (just like Microsoft does).

2) Reports: Business love reports, if they add a way to generate reports straight from the DB (like Oracle and SQL Server) is a killer feature most of the time.

3) Customer Support.

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