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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
by statictype 10y ago
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
- scrollaway 10y agoYou can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.
- bcruddy 10y agoRed Hat's market cap is almost $15B and they're worth $2B. Definitely not incompatible.
- statictype 10y agoRight. 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.
- oldmanjay 10y agoOf course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable
- scrollaway 10y agoYou 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.