I'm inclined to agree with you. It's not my field but I suspect VC pressure has something to do with it: they need their 10x returns, or their unicorns, to make up for all the losses elsewhere and "get big fast" is the most reliable mechanism for doing that. Not suggesting I'm a fan of it, btw.
Re:MongoDB has filed to go public
by user5994461 on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:32AM
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It's a market issue. Databases are a very competitive business with lots of options and competitors. It is also extremely hard to sell.
Re:MongoDB has filed to go public
by _Codemonkeyism on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:55AM
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Mailchimp is rather large, but 2017 I have the feeling 37Signals is rather insignificant, e.g. compared to Slack.
Re:MongoDB has filed to go public
by johnchristopher on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:30AM
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FWIW when I was still a student and not in a 9-5 I wondered what if would feel like to use basecamp. Now here I am happily going with flow using slack on the fre eplan. One of my coworkers sometimes asks if we shouldn't go with a subscription to have the whole logs but we rarely have to dive so far in the past at all.
Companies like Mailchimp and 37 Signals prove that the "logical" way to do it works pretty well.
(Not a criticism of your comment, just the get big fast idea)