4 ms·
This is like saying "The iPhone is not better than Android". There is room for multiple offerings with different strengths and paths to market appealing to diff
by redwood 9y ago
This is like saying "The iPhone is not better than Android". There is room for multiple offerings with different strengths and paths to market appealing to different types of users.
- virmundi 9y agoI upvoted you. You raise a good example. To the same simile, if you care about use, freedom and reasonableness, you'd pick Android. So too anything other than Mongo. That's what I don't get, why would anyone want to invest in Mongo? I say that as a Mongo certified develop (best way to learn at the time).
- redwood 9y agoSpeculating, amongst the "Android" options there are four categories: - There are the expensive legacy relational solutions (these are on a long slow death). - There are small open source and sometimes even closed source projects that are either going to be dead or gobbled up; or at least far too many people will fear they will which will prevent adoption. - There are cloud-native lock-in solutions. - There are well-established large community open source projects that stay alive because there's enough stakeholders but they don't have strong commercial backers. All of these categories are a surprisingly interesting market opportunity for a disruptive commercially backed more vertically integrated open source player to target.