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In my experience, companies don't care about introducing proprietary lock-in. They do it all the time with services and infrastructure. It's all excuses. They j
by TurboHaskal 7y ago
In my experience, companies don't care about introducing proprietary lock-in. They do it all the time with services and infrastructure. It's all excuses. They just don't want to pay for software.
- cpach 7y agoLot’s of companies pay for software. E.g. Windows Server and SQL Server.
- agumonkey 7y agoBlame it on decades old experienced marketing and salesmen department at Microsoft. I'm not sure Cognitect has any firepower here.
- TurboHaskal 7y agoOf course they do. I'm criticising those companies that claim that they cannot use certain products because they're not open source, while not open sourcing their own. It is just an oxymoron for not reaching to the wallet.
- methehack 7y agoPaying for software is one thing. Paying for software where the amount you pay may be all but completely dictated by the supplier is another. If you decided to pay for a relational database, you could, with some work, swap vendors. If you paid for datomic, you could not. That makes it a non-starter imo as a technology decision. The business model here is naive and will change or datomic will always be super-niche. Maybe that's be design, but it's a little sad to me as it sounds like the tech could do some real good. edit: typo