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> Our goal is to focus our product efforts on delivering the best experience for the community and customers After makimg clustering closed source after saying
by steve19 8y ago
> Our goal is to focus our product efforts on delivering the best experience for the community and customers
After makimg clustering closed source after saying it would be part of the open source version, I think it would be more accurate and far more honest to just say "our customers" not "community and customers".
- pauldix 8y agoThe vast majority of InfluxDB users are using open source exclusively. There are millions of servers all over the world running open source software built by InfluxData. When I say we're building for our community, I mean exactly that. We continue to put software into the open source ecosystem because it's a core value for our company and as developers we like to share what we're building with the world. Yes, we build some features (like clustering) exclusively for paying customers, but that is what subsidizes the open source that we continue to build and make freely available. Last year I gave a talk and a related blog post about the dynamics of building a business on open source software: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/the-open-source-database-business-model-is-under-siege/ https://www.influxdata.com/blog/the-open-source-database-bus...