I used cassandra for years at NYSE and we were able to do what we wanted with cassandra by leveraging open source and internal development knowing that cassandra did what we wanted it to do and that no one could ever take the code away from us in a worst case scenario.
Compare and contrast that with the pure proprietary model, and I'm sure it will help you sleep easier. -- Colin Clark +1-320-221-9531 > On May 15, 2014, at 10:52 AM, "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> > wrote: > > You can always check the project committer wiki: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers > > -- Jack Krupansky > > From: Kevin Burton > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:39 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? > > 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.
