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Why did they make this acquisition? It looks like data Artisans provides tools for managing Apache Fink deployments. Is it more than that?
by statictype 8y ago
Why did they make this acquisition?
It looks like data Artisans provides tools for managing Apache Fink deployments. Is it more than that?
- jamesblonde 8y agoIt's an aqui-hire, i guess. Not great for Data Artisans customers. Alibaba are flexing their muscles. Google have their own data platform. We want to show we have our own too - they see it as competitive advantage. Alibaba are not an enterprise software company, like Data Artisans were.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoDoesn’t Alibaba offer services similar to AWS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Cloud Unless I misunderstand what is meant by enterprise software? I’m just a tradesman, mostly, so that’s quite possible.
- jamesblonde 8y agoAn enterprise vendor would have been oracle or red hat who kept flink available and for sale on a clouds and on-premise. I can only buy assume flink will become an alibaba only managed service. Why else would they buy it?
- sewen 8y agoThe announcement clearly says that there is the same commitment to customers as before. https://www.da-platform.com/blog/data-artisans-alibaba-new-chapter-for-open-source-big-data https://www.da-platform.com/blog/data-artisans-alibaba-new-c...