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Re:InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query func... by zenlot on Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:17AM (#13095060)
That seems to be their uncommunicated plan - to attract users to open source version and then remove features to offer just with enterprise product. They have done it with clustering support where after attracting people with promises they then removed it from open source version. Grafana as a replacement? It really does different things.
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Re:InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query func... by pauldix on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:59AM (#13095885)
The admin UI functionality is getting moved over to Chronograf, which is now open source. We do have commercial stuff, but trying to make money off our UI was never a strategy.
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Re:InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query func... by omn1 on Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:34AM (#13095101)
That sounds a bit unfair to me. In the end it's a company and they need to earn money somehow. Clustering is a very hard problem that takes a lot of manpower to get right.
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Re:InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query func... by imglorp on Saturday December 03, 2016 @07:41AM (#13095460)
They do deserve to be paid for their product, yes. And it's worth paying for.

They ill will was also deserved though, because when they changed business plans to exclude more features from the community version, they surprised and angered many users. Bait and switch is what got communicated, and trust violated, forcing projects to seek alternatives or modify their budgets.

This can be avoided by clearly communicating the roadmap of community vs enterprise features and sticking to it. But don't keep danging new features in free and then remove them unexpectedly.

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