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AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#12super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.
Complete control over what gets merged and worked on by the core team.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#13super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.
Devs gotta eat. Yeah the code is out there but the code is a result of a lot of thinking, prioritization, research into what is needed from the actual product. So now AWS owns that mindshare and talent and will (probably heavily) influence its decisions. I just hope DuckDB doesn't stray from its goal of being the SQLite (e.g. embedded) OLAP.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#14I've been super impressed by DuckDB ever since first trying it out about 3 three years ago. Congrats to the founders!
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#15I am glad for them. Does anyone know the amount of the operation?
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#16We just can't have nice things, can we?
Buying nice things should not be underestimated :)
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#17We just can't have nice things, can we?
its open source, we can fork .. (i know for such a project it will require a very special group of "we", but in theory .. it can happen)
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#18I'm glad that DuckDB has a foundation in place and hope it is resilient enough to push the DB forward when the time comes. Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive, and the certainly will bulldoze it for some dumb reason when the next re-org comes.
Yup, they are very serious about DynamoDB and it is a very good product. Wish they released more information about it, though.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#19I'm glad that DuckDB has a foundation in place and hope it is resilient enough to push the DB forward when the time comes. Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive, and the certainly will bulldoze it for some dumb reason when the next re-org comes.
Surely they are better than Google in this regard.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#20super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.
Complete control over what gets merged and worked on by the core team.
it was already like that, and merging 3rd party changes to the core was troublesome, so maybe aws just bought them cause of this reason :D