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> Spend whatever you can to capture the land, then charge rent. Spot on. And this rent-seeking behavior is all about becoming quasi-monopolist in a niche and i
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
> Spend whatever you can to capture the land, then charge rent.
Spot on. And this rent-seeking behavior is all about becoming quasi-monopolist in a niche and it's anticompetitive and anti-innovation.
Real R&D is done only to capture land, then it is replaced by PR and all efforts go into holding the trench.
- bogomipz 9y agoWhat is the rent here, enterprise licensing? Quasi-monopolist? Does MongoDB have anywhere near a majority of market share for database vendor?
- Eridrus 9y agoIn technology, it's often the cost of re-integrating with something else. MongoDB makes this lock in ever better because it's API isn't SQL, so getting off is even harder than usual.
- gaius 9y agoIt's pretty easy to use the Mongo protocol to talk to Postgres, and Postgres JSONB beats Mongo BSON hands down
- empthought 9y agoCue gratuitous protocol changes from MongoDB.