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0 pointsstatictype9y ago0 comments

It works the opposite way too.

If a project is open source then who is committed to helping you support and maintain it? You essentially need to have a team to do it.

If there's a company behind it, it gives you assurances.

Especially for a small company that needs to focus on building a product rather than committing features and bug fixes to their database

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scrollaway9y ago

You can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.

statictypeOP9y ago

Right. My point was more that being open source in its own isn't always enough. Having a company behind it makes a difference to many people - more than the distinction between open vs closed.

I was able to sell our company on Cassandra because there is a Datastax there to support it when the shit hits the fan.

oldmanjay9y ago

Of course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable

scrollaway9y ago

You cannot draw that conclusion from the data at hand. There's plenty of closed source product companies that shut down because they didn't manage to make a profitable business as well.

bcruddy9y ago

Red Hat's market cap is almost $15B and they're worth $2B. Definitely not incompatible.

amscanne9y ago

This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2".

I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?

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0 pointsstatictype9y ago0 comments

It works the opposite way too.

If a project is open source then who is committed to helping you support and maintain it? You essentially need to have a team to do it.

If there's a company behind it, it gives you assurances.

Especially for a small company that needs to focus on building a product rather than committing features and bug fixes to their database

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scrollaway9y ago

You can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.

statictypeOP9y ago

Right. My point was more that being open source in its own isn't always enough. Having a company behind it makes a difference to many people - more than the distinction between open vs closed.

I was able to sell our company on Cassandra because there is a Datastax there to support it when the shit hits the fan.

oldmanjay9y ago

Of course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable

scrollaway9y ago

You cannot draw that conclusion from the data at hand. There's plenty of closed source product companies that shut down because they didn't manage to make a profitable business as well.

bcruddy9y ago

Red Hat's market cap is almost $15B and they're worth $2B. Definitely not incompatible.

amscanne9y ago

This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2".

I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?

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