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Re:The race to replace Redis by mariusor on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:39AM (#39861840)
Has anyone asked Filippo if he still wants to work on Redis "for them" though? The fact that he stepped down suggests he doesn't.
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Re:The race to replace Redis by radicalbyte on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:45AM (#39861865)
He sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation.

Again, it's chump change, these companies drop that kinda money all the time in aquihires..

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Re:The race to replace Redis by chipdart on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:32AM (#39863923)
> He sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation.

It sounds like a very bad deal for the likes of Amazon et al. The likes of Amazon offer Redis alongside memcache just because cloud adopters might want to use a memory cache service,but there is no value in buying trademarks for it.

I mean, just take a quick look how Amazon offers managed RDBMS, and how the specific DB is just an afterthought behind a compatible interface.

People seem to think that just because some company has cash that they should mindlessly spend it on things that add absolutely no value.

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Re:The race to replace Redis by emmp on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:03AM (#39864234)
He worked there for 5 years. It probably didn't feel "random" for him.
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