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Re:MongoDB has filed to go public by eeZah7Ux on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:37AM (#15311191)
> Spend whatever you can to capture the land, then charge rent.

Spot on. And this rent-seeking behavior is all about becoming quasi-monopolist in a niche and it's anticompetitive and anti-innovation.

Real R&D is done only to capture land, then it is replaced by PR and all efforts go into holding the trench.

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Re:MongoDB has filed to go public by bogomipz on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:48AM (#15311647)
What is the rent here, enterprise licensing? Quasi-monopolist? Does MongoDB have anywhere near a majority of market share for database vendor?
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Re:MongoDB has filed to go public by Eridrus on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:55AM (#15312162)
In technology, it's often the cost of re-integrating with something else. MongoDB makes this lock in ever better because it's API isn't SQL, so getting off is even harder than usual.
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Re:MongoDB has filed to go public by gaius on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:07AM (#15312831)
It's pretty easy to use the Mongo protocol to talk to Postgres, and Postgres JSONB beats Mongo BSON hands down
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Re:MongoDB has filed to go public by empthought on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:28AM (#15313036)
Cue gratuitous protocol changes from MongoDB.
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