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Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
by fatih-erikli 4y ago
Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
- __alexs 4y agoGatsby Inc is a SaaS that provides hosting.
- ushakov 4y agoaren't they just an AWS wrapper?
- madeofpalk 4y agoWho's "they" - Netlify or Gatsby?
- fatih-erikli 4y agoDoes it matter? How many person do you know around your circle, uses netlify or gatsby? It sounds like a cdn business to me
- madeofpalk 4y agoIsn't a CDN just a wrapper around Dell?
- lukevp 4y agoWait until you hear about Heroku!
- fatih-erikli 4y agoIt's fastly. Fastly dns' points to a server in located in CA.
- rburhum 4y agoPlease don’t take this the wrong way, but that is like saying that AWS EC2 is “just a wrapper” of Xen, or that AWS RDS for PostgreSQL is “just a wrapper” of PostgreSQL. There is an entire business around those with value add/sales/support/marketing as well as a strategy for growth.
- _fat_santa 4y agoI would assume all the tech around Gatsby’s enterprise offerings. If we take this example to NextJS, it would be like if they bought Vercel.
- Taywee 4y agoFrom the start of TFA: Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc. to Accelerate Adoption of Composable Web Architectures Acquisition of new Valhalla Content Hub platform provides Enterprise developers increased flexibility when building composable web experiences with any modern web framework Gatsby web framework to remain open source for all developers to use
- blantonl 4y agoyou realize that organizations that develop open source software can sell support contracts, consulting, services, hosting, etc, all things that generate revenue. I guess you could have said the same about RedHat, yet IBM acquired them for $34 billion. I wonder why they would pay that much for an open source company? Hmmmm... there must be a reason?
- johnla 4y agoIP? Patents? Other companies use those technologies and have to pay for commercial licenses? They can freeze out competitors? I don't know, just spitballing.
- jeffjobs4000 4y agoOpen Source is just Freemium with more steps.
- madeofpalk 4y agoGatsby was primarily developed by Gatsby Inc, a VC-funded company https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2020-05-27-announcing-series-b-funding/ https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2020-05-27-announcing-series-b...
- chimen 4y agotheir market share, their traction, highly targeted source of clientelle