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Datomic LOOKED cool 10-12 years when it first came out. But they started from day 1 with a price, so most people, me included, just passed over it. I think the
by brianwawok 4y ago
Datomic LOOKED cool 10-12 years when it first came out. But they started from day 1 with a price, so most people, me included, just passed over it.
I think they went way too fast to commercial, and needed to go a freemium model to actually get market share.
- xpe 4y agoThis doesn’t quite reflect the history. Datomic had various free/trial options. They evolved a little bit. Someone who watched the pricing and licenses very closely probably could do a better timeline than I could.
- brianwawok 4y agoRight but it was always very clear “you can have it in dev for free, but prod is $$$$$”. It was not something like “use it free in prod as much as you want, or pay us for support” I had a few projects it would have been cool on, but I just did postgres instead and won in the long run.