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. >> >
