What Happens When Apple Buys a Company You Depend On
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Re: What Happens When Apple Buys a Company You Depend On
#2De rigueur comment: What happens when Apple buys a closed source company you depend on.
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#3Were these people paying customers? If not what did they expect would happen.
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#4The website doesn't even mention anything relating to the purchase from what I can see https://foundationdb.com/
Edit: Ah.. its on the community page: http://community.foundationdb.com/
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#5Were these people paying customers? If not what did they expect would happen.
To combine this with another comment, free and closed source means that at some point, many of those users will be massively disappointed. I can think of very few exceptions.
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#6> Like other NoSQL databases, FoundationDB offered a way to build databases that spanned hundreds or thousands of different servers, often housed in geographically distant data centers.
What?
> FoundationDB promised a way to provide scalability without sacrificing performance
Wait, what?
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#7It's odd that they imply foundation db has a strength in scalable performance that other no sql databases do not which would be handy for financial applications but then fail to mention apple pay as a potential use case.
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#8If Apple gets any bigger we're going to have to start worrying about them buying Google and then shutting it down.
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#9> Like other NoSQL databases, FoundationDB offered a way to build databases that spanned hundreds or thousands of different servers, often housed in geographically distant data centers. What? > FoundationDB promised a way to provide scalability without sacrificing performance Wait, what?
I understand that FoundationDB's main point of differentiation from other NoSQL document DBs was support for transactional integrity across documents. Others (i.e. all open-source options, AFAIK) support atomic transactions only on a single document.
Sounds like the author had been told this, didn't quite get it, and mumbled this stuff instead.
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#10The same thing that happens when a service or product you depend on shuts its doors or gets bought out.
Why is this so exceptional? What would we do if twitter folded tomorrow? things like this happen all the time. There is nothing special about it, except Wired wants to make money taking this tack.
I mean, it'd be nice if we could depend on things to be there forever and it'd be nice if companies shuttered gracefully, but it does not happen all the time.
What are they saying in essence? Don't depend on closed source services? Don't depend on non-creative commons Wired articles for your news as they may shut down one day? People make a calculus. This option is closed source, but offers this advantage. I know, as any business, they may disappear and I'm left holding the bag, but I'm willing to take that chance, given the advantages. This is also the case for open source software, but, yes, OSS has the advantage that someone with sufficient need and resources could resurrect the project.
Fine, they have a preference for open source. That's great. We could all hope all was open source but short of that, we use the tools that are available --with the understanding they could disappear tomorrow.