Don’t know, but as a potential customer of DataStax I’m also concerned at the fact that there does not seem to be a competitor offering Cassandra support and services. All innovation seems to be occurring only in the OSS version or DSE(*). I’d welcome a competitor for DSE - it does not even have to be so well-rounded ;-)
(DSE is really cool, and I think DataStax is doing awesome work. I just get uncomfortable when there’s a SPoF - that’s why I’m running Cassandra in the first place ;-) ((So yes, you, exactly you who is reading this and thinking of starting a company around Cassandra, pitch me when you have a product.)) (((* Yes, Netflix is open sourcing a lot of Cassandra stuff, but I don’t think they’re planning to pivot.))) /Janne On 14 May 2014, at 23:39, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? > > … vs other companies. > > When MySQL was acquired by Oracle this became a big issue because even though > you can't really buy an Open Source project, you can acquire all the > developers and essentially do the same thing. > > It would be sad if all of Cassandra's 'eggs' were in one basket and a similar > situation happens with Datastax. > > Seems like they're doing an awesome job to be sure but I guess it worries me > in the back of my mind. > > > > -- > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: San Francisco, CA > Skype: burtonator > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > > War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are > people. >
