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> The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit? I'm an engineer at a fortune 5

by cirgue 9y ago

> The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit? I'm an engineer at a fortune 50, and from where I am sitting this is claim as no merit at all. Our dev shop is pretty much entirely open source excepting databases. The rest of the company prioritizes open-source first for all new development. Open source is alive and well in private enterprise, and I suspect that's why Oracle (and some other companies) are diversifying their PR strategies right now.

copperx 9y ago
What closed-source db are you using?
- tedmiston 9y ago
  I can’t speak for a Fortune 50, but in the data warehouse space especially at massive scale, most options are closed source.
  - copperx 9y ago
    I just wanted to know if there's anything popular besides Oracle and MSSQL.
    - tedmiston 9y ago
      I think those are the biggest in general or in the relational category at least.
    - cirgue 9y ago
      Vertica and Teradata are two others that seem to be popular among really big enterprises.
    - ecshafer 9y ago
      Ibm's db2 is still popular among financial companies.
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majewsky 9y ago
Same here, except I'm not working at a Fortune 50 (though probably only because SAP is not US-based). Our team runs OpenStack on Kubernetes for our internal infrastructure, and most development is happening in the open at https://github.com/sapcc https://github.com/sapcc