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will oracle be around in 10-20 years? will red hat? which will experience growth?
All things being equal it would take red hat ~30 quarters to make 2bn dollars, or roughly 7 years. 7 years to make what Oracle makes in a quarter. I don't really have a dog in this fight but just FYI I think you missed ops point.
The relationship between EnterpriseDB and the at-large Postgres community has always intrigued me. Why do they turn over to the community what they could make part of their proprietary fork? Maybe they make a lot of money consulting and not just licenses and general at-large adoption is good for that side of business.
I have never used EnterpriseDB and I am only aware of it from a distance but it has always struck me as the ideal open source arrangement. Sure, EnterpriseDB is never going to have the revenue numbers of Oracle but their management and business teams should have a much easier time sleeping at night. I think it is great that EnterpriseDB has identified that it is better for their company to exist as part of a healthy…
Why? What is Oracle doing so wrong that they cant sleep as well at night?
The relationship between EnterpriseDB and the at-large Postgres community has always intrigued me. Why do they turn over to the community what they could make part of their proprietary fork? Maybe they make a lot of money consulting and not just licenses and general at-large adoption is good for that side of business.
Some tradeoffs since the products are usually not as good and move slower than proprietary commercial offerings but the free access and large communities make up for it.
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Citus should already be saturating i/o during a scan unless you're only hitting one shard. What am I missing about your use case?
We shard our data by customer and individual queries touch only data for one customer. We do split a customer's data into multiple shards, but the number of shards we would need to split each customer into is not worth the overhead of maintaining that many shards.
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All things being equal it would take red hat ~30 quarters to make 2bn dollars, or roughly 7 years. 7 years to make what Oracle makes in a quarter. I don't really have a dog in this fight but just FYI I think you missed ops point.
RedHat contributes to the common good, Oracle for a few millionaires. Therefore they create more value.
Robert and his team are really doing an impressive amount of progress and work on this.
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RedHat contributes to the common good, Oracle for a few millionaires. Therefore they create more value.
Does developing MySQL and Java somehow not contribute to the common good?
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RedHat contributes to the common good, Oracle for a few millionaires. Therefore they create more value.
Does developing MySQL and Java somehow not contribute to the common good?
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Well, Red Hat have demonstrated you can make a lot of money by open sourcing things (including buying proprietary software like ManageIQ and oVirt and open sourcing it). Given that EDB has ex-RHAT folks involved in setting it up, I imagine they're trying to replay the model.
RedHat Q4 FY2016 profit: $68M Oracle Q4 FY2016 profit: $2B
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Well, Red Hat have demonstrated you can make a lot of money by open sourcing things (including buying proprietary software like ManageIQ and oVirt and open sourcing it). Given that EDB has ex-RHAT folks involved in setting it up, I imagine they're trying to replay the model.
RedHat Q4 FY2016 profit: $68M Oracle Q4 FY2016 profit: $2B