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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by zozbot123 on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:01AM (#18903426)
> Open source projects cost generally the same as closed source projects.

https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-lin... (mind you, that's 2008 data. I couldn't find more recent estimates)

Mongo is quite unrepresentative here - not least, because they're selling the very same software (MongoDB) under both OSS and proprietary licensing! A better comparison in the database space would be e.g. PostgresSQL - the latest versions of which, BTW, are including "NoSQL"-focused features that make it quite competitive with the likes of MongoDB.

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