Apple open-sources FoundationDB

Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by nlavezzo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:50PM (#16878186)

Wavefront's co-founder just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/panghy/status/987022825457266689

Finally it's out! @WavefrontHQ managaes petabyte scale clusters with #foundationdb today!

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by kbumsik on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:02PM (#16878321)

I'm confused. How they could use FoundationDB when Apple aquired it a long time ago? Did apple sell the software to other companies?

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by nlavezzo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:15PM (#16878480)

FoundationDB was a company that existed in the market, licensing our database technology for quite a while. Licenses don't necessarily terminate upon acquisitions.

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by panghy on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:49PM (#16879460)

We worked on the codebase independently (we have escrow). We run petabyte-scale clusters in aws.

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