RE: Citus Data becomes Microsoft

From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Alvaro Herrera' <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "'pgsql-advocacy(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-advocacy(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: Citus Data becomes Microsoft
Date: 2019-01-25 04:51:00
Message-ID: 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1FB70CE7@G01JPEXMBYT05
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From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org]
> On 2019-Jan-25, Justin Clift wrote:
>
> > That is absolutely terrible news. :(
> >
> > Looks like they've taken a leaf from the Oracle playbook. :( :( :(
>
> Well, isn't this what everyone said about Microsoft buying GitHub?
> However, nothing terrible seems to have happened to GitHub ... rather
> the opposite, I think.

Yeah. OTOH, I probably feel the same or similar concern as Justin has -- a tough era for independent PostgreSQL providers...

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
https://stratechery.com/2019/aws-mongodb-and-the-economic-realities-of-open-source/

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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