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MongoDB is valued around 15 billion dollars right now. You can argue that they are not really open source, due to their new license that is not OSI-approved. Bu
by lacker 6y ago
MongoDB is valued around 15 billion dollars right now. You can argue that they are not really open source, due to their new license that is not OSI-approved. But it’s pretty close, and it’s something that aspiring open source businesses should consider. It’s basically “almost entirely open source except AWS can’t offer your product as a service.” To many people, that is just as good as open source, and if it makes the business model that much better, maybe it’s a good trade off.
- k__ 6y agoBut AWS is offering their product as a service, isn't it?
- lacker 6y agoNo, AWS offers DocumentDB which is "MongoDB-compatible". In practice, it's incompatible enough that many people use MongoDB Atlas, which is the MongoDB-provided full managed database service for MongoDB.
- geewee 6y agoYes but I think that's why they changed their license wasn't it?
- pritambaral 6y agoAWS had no MongoDB-as-a-Service before MongoDB Inc. changed their license.
- agustif 6y agoAmazon can probably get volume discount, and sell with a nice margin to their gigantic customer base who will not care to reach for MongoDB cloud? idk
- codemac 6y agoAnd confluent/kafka w/4.5B. Not to mention Google themselves are making money from open sourcing containers, like tons of it. They start this conversation saying "only redhat can be redhat", but then basically throw their hands up in the air because they can't describe all of open source as one business model. Different products & technologies require different business models. I don't think it's surprising that a podcast named "on premises IT" is out of touch with a wide array of successful service based business models (I say this with love).