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Re:From where I left by bitexploder on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:00PM (#42380139)
Cloud providers offer productized versions of Redis, so their interest in Valkey should be obvious :)
Re:From where I left by bornfreddy on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:36PM (#42381827)
Yep. It is still a bit ironic that the community rallied behind Big Tech instead of a small startup though. Just saying.
Re:From where I left by stephenr on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:53PM (#42383511)
The community rallied around a community fork with an open source licence instead of a VC funded startup with a penchant for changing licences.
Re:From where I left by erik_seaberg on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @08:51PM (#42383859)
Around competitive prices and terms rather than a monopoly.
Re:From where I left by motorest on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @11:30PM (#42384807)
> Yep. It is still a bit ironic that the community rallied behind Big Tech instead of a small startup though. Just saying.

The community rallied behind the project that ensures the software they care about remains free and open and available to all without the risk of being blind-sided.

Re:From where I left by acmeian on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:28AM (#42385349)
Microsoft appears to be the only major player that isn't going with Valkey and established some sort of licensing deal with Redis [0].

[0]: https://redis.io/blog/introducing-azure-managed-redis

Re:From where I left by riverdweller on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:18AM (#42386470)
Microsoft also last year released their own Redis-client-compatible key-value store, Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet