Perhaps because the developers are working on DSE :-P
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com>wrote: > Of the 16 active committers, 8 are not at DataStax. See > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers. That said, active > involvement varies and there are other contributors inside DataStax and in > the community. You can look at the dev mailing list as well to look for > involvement in more detail. > > On 16 May 2014, at 10:28, Janne Jalkanen <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com> wrote: > > > > > 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. > >> > > > > -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* Skype: *burtonator* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile<https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com> War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are people.
