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As an engineer directly involved in a company working on one of the biggest mongodb deployments, i also believe that this is crazy because the technology truly
by brugidou 13y ago
As an engineer directly involved in a company working on one of the biggest mongodb deployments, i also believe that this is crazy because the technology truly sucks outside of a very narrow use case (prototyping, no shard).
However they market it so much and they accept very flexible deals with enterprises, in combination with the easy-to-bootstrap for the VP/Manager/CTO, they can probably sell a lot of it.
- nasalgoat 13y agoThey offer a deeply discounted option for startups and once you have lock-in (ie. running sharded, basically) and become dependent on the support, they increase the cost by 10x.
- threeseed 13y agoWell here's a thought. Don't become dependant on support. EVERY company who sells to enterprises makes their revenue from support. It's been this way for decades. So if you are unhappy paying the money then invest in dedicated people.
- nasalgoat 13y agoUnlike something like Oracle that has been around for decades, at this point the admins I have are probably some of the most experienced MongoDB admins there are. I, myself, have given several talks at MongoDB groups and without exception have been the most expert user in attendance. The only people who know more about MongoDB at this point work for 10gen.
- jfb 13y agoEnterprise software deals are never closed on technical merit.