Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
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Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
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Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#2Great product. It should have happened last week, then we truly could have said that all Enterprise Apache Open Software products died of the AWS plague in 2018: Hadoop is gone with Cloudera/Hortonworks merging, Kafka with Confluent's new license covering their ecosystem of tooling. Databricks now have their own Spark runtime, which will get more TLC than Apache Spark. On top of Apache, Mongo, Neo4J, Redis Labs abandoning open-source. Wow, just wow.
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#3What is it about European Enterprise Data software companies that they never make it past this stage without either being bought up or moving to the States?
MySQL, JBoss, Elastic. The list is much longer.
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#4What is it about European Enterprise Data software companies that they never make it past this stage without either being bought up or moving to the States? MySQL, JBoss, Elastic. The list is much longer.
The funding options in Europe are abysmal compared to US or even UK. EU response to this is various EU funding programs that are mostly throwing money away for little to no benefit. At least in the tech sector.
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#5Great product. It should have happened last week, then we truly could have said that all Enterprise Apache Open Software products died of the AWS plague in 2018: Hadoop is gone with Cloudera/Hortonworks merging, Kafka with Confluent's new license covering their ecosystem of tooling. Databricks now have their own Spark runtime, which will get more TLC than Apache Spark. On top of Apache, Mongo, Neo4J, Redis Labs aband…
> On top of Apache ... abandoning open source
Hold on ... what?!?
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#6What is it about European Enterprise Data software companies that they never make it past this stage without either being bought up or moving to the States? MySQL, JBoss, Elastic. The list is much longer.
One reason is because I think there isn't such an obsession with becoming a billionaire here. If you're a founder, and someone offers you a deal which will personally see you net €10-20m after tax, why wouldn't you take it?
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#7I wonder what it would take to create the set of conditions for another "Silicon Valley / SF Bay Area" to appear in Europe. It seems like inevitably, any tech companies that are successful always end up getting bought out and leave to the U.S. instead of staying.
What are the primary issues? Lack of VC funding, culture, government policy? On the surface, it doesn't seem like there's anything particularly lacking, at least from my superficial understanding as an American viewing in from the outside.
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#8Great product. It should have happened last week, then we truly could have said that all Enterprise Apache Open Software products died of the AWS plague in 2018: Hadoop is gone with Cloudera/Hortonworks merging, Kafka with Confluent's new license covering their ecosystem of tooling. Databricks now have their own Spark runtime, which will get more TLC than Apache Spark. On top of Apache, Mongo, Neo4J, Redis Labs aband…
> On top of Apache ... abandoning open source Hold on ... what?!?
I think you're mis-parsing what i (hastily) wrote. On top of (these) Apache (projects being abandoned), ....
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#9I wonder what it would take to create the set of conditions for another "Silicon Valley / SF Bay Area" to appear in Europe. It seems like inevitably, any tech companies that are successful always end up getting bought out and leave to the U.S. instead of staying. What are the primary issues? Lack of VC funding, culture, government policy? On the surface, it doesn't seem like there's anything particularly lacking, at…
There is very little VC funding and the culture/language barriers between countries are huge.
Re: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
#10I wonder what it would take to create the set of conditions for another "Silicon Valley / SF Bay Area" to appear in Europe. It seems like inevitably, any tech companies that are successful always end up getting bought out and leave to the U.S. instead of staying. What are the primary issues? Lack of VC funding, culture, government policy? On the surface, it doesn't seem like there's anything particularly lacking, at…
there is already another Silicon Valley. And that is China. Alibaba is a Chinese company...