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Our company is research-driven in the sense that is based on me reading a lot of papers on distributed systems and algorithms (eg. Google papers, Lamport papers
by Maro 16y ago
Our company is research-driven in the sense that is based on me reading a lot of papers on distributed systems and algorithms (eg. Google papers, Lamport papers), and extracting a design concept from those for our first product (Keyspace). To give back, I write a paper for each product we release or algorithm we invent, and we're an open-source company.
It's working so far, we have bootstrapped ourselves to a nice profitable level, we just rented our first office, and are working on our next-gen database product, which will be scalable not just replicated.
(Btw. we're in Budapest and we're looking for a C/C++ programmer.)
- bradfordcross 16y agoMaro, thanks for sharing your example. I presume this is you? http://scalien.com/keyspace/ http://scalien.com/keyspace/ Awesome stuff.
- Maro 16y agoYes, that's me.
- pgbovine 16y agoawesome, Maro! one of the biggest impacts of research (in an applied field like CS systems) is that it provides good ideas for people in industry to pick off, adapt, and refine for their own applications. great work
- Maro 16y agoToo bad the top journals are not open access... Unacceptable publishing conditions (and lack of time and incentive) are one of the reasons I don't bother trying to publish our papers in a journal.
- pgbovine 16y agoyeah, that's a whole other big debate within academia :) but if you can make your technical reports and white papers public on your website, that could really help out people working in related areas. Edit: i agree that if you're running a company, it's probably not worth your time and effort to try to play the academic peer-reviewed publishing game; the benefits to you aren't really that great (besides a bit of PR and connections with academics) ... if you want to share technical info publicly, putting it on your website and then letting Google + Google Scholar index your PDFs is far more effective :)
- Maro 16y agoThey are: http://scalien.com/whitepapers http://scalien.com/whitepapers
- paraschopra 16y agoAwesome stuff. If you don't mind me asking: a) how do you make money (I observe your code is open source); b) how do you market or get prospective customers (since it looks like this is an enterprise product). Just curios, because the product looks very interesting and I'm sure your business model will be even more interesting.
- Maro 16y agoFor a similar but more mature use-case see this australian company described in a recent Curt Monash post: http://www.dbms2.com/2010/06/19/objectivity-infinite-graph/ http://www.dbms2.com/2010/06/19/objectivity-infinite-graph/ (I don't know more about them, but this is one possible model for us.)
- ljlolel 16y agoHey Maro, that sounds really cool. I can't believe you're in Hungary. I'm in Budapest for just another week working and studying! I work on stickybits.com. If you can meet up, we should. Call or text me at +1 36 70 574 1198 .