Would like to know the reason Callidus Cloud bought OrientDB, other than an investment. I don't see any previous transactions that they have made that would help us figure out the future of OrientDB. Would really appreciate this cleared up.
My guess is that they want to drive the project to their use case using a very good DBMS. Everyone elses needs or wants will be lower priority. Mike On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 7:21:51 PM UTC-4, l.garulli wrote: > > Hi all, > > OrientDB is here to stay. CallidusCloud bought OrientDB as an investment > in the Graph and Multi-Model technology because they believe this is the > best technology in the DBMS world. > > In the last months, we've seen the closing of some of the DBMS companies > that weren't able to be sustainable after years (Basho, RethinkDB, etc). > I'm sure it has been a pain for their clients that have seen their > investments failing and a migration to another DBMS is a very expensive > thing. > > Until the last week, OrientDB was a small player, but profitable, in the > crowded DBMS market. Thanks to CallidusCloud (a public company on NASDAQ), > OrientDB is now the most solid company in the NoSQL space. > > So this is a good news for both clients and users! > > OrientDB Community Enterprise *remains Open Source with the same Apache 2 > license*. OrientDB Enterprise Edition remains commercial. *All the > clients continue to be supported*. > > I hope this responded to your concerns. > > Best Regards, > > Luca Garulli > VP OrientDB > > > On 22 September 2017 at 21:58, Tielman Van Vleck <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> True, but Oracle understands databases. Luca (we met in Austin last >> year): you will have to fight hard for autonomy and constantly prove the >> relevance of OrientDB within a company with other priorities. Remember what >> happened to CompuServe after H&R Block bought them - Block intended to keep >> the product alive, but really bought them for their computing hardware and >> wouldn't give them the capital needed to compete against AOL's marketing. >> Oops... don't let CC forget that story! >> >> -Tielman >> >> >> On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 1:24:37 PM UTC-4, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> >>We all remember the path mysql took, after oracle acquired it. >>> >>> I am not a heavy mysql user, but I don't think mysql took a terrible >>> turn after oracle. Mysql still seems to be aviable when I want to install >>> it, there is still a large communit support network, and it more less works >>> as expected, but perhaps those who are more invested in mysql will view the >>> situation different. >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 9:42:49 AM UTC-4, Manabu Tokunaga wrote: >>>> >>>> Interesting discussions. I have been in many situations where "I've >>>> been acquired. Everything discussed here is a very legitimate customer >>>> concern and hope that there will be official and confirmed answers from >>>> the >>>> new company. >>>> >>>> In terms of the community aspect of it, we know, for example, there are >>>> OpenJDK vs Oracle Java and MariaDB vs mySQL type situations where they are >>>> functionally compatible forks derived from the acquired base. If this is >>>> possible, then as a community, we have protection. >>>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OrientDB" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OrientDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
