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It'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 ha
by jamesblonde 8y ago
It'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...