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Re: RethinkDB is shutting down

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Post by toomuchtodo »

bhouston wrote: post #10
toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says Mongo won't go eventually as well?

MongoDB is like the Microsoft of operating systems. Well promoted and easy to get going with. Hopefully they use the money they have to rewrite MongoDB to be better.

Okay...but if Rethink couldn't make their business self-sustaining, why would Mongo when there are a plethora of other open source databases/datastores that can do Mongo's job better than Mongo?

EDIT: We'll just wait for Mongo to burn through all their cash then.

Re: RethinkDB is shutting down

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Post by aeharding »

Very sad to hear, but hopefully the software will continue to be developed in an open source format.

Keep this in mind when you invest in a certain technology: some organizations, especially nonprofits (for example, the Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation, the new Node Foundation) are probably going to support and develop their software for extended periods of time relative to, say, a startup or for-profit (Parse, MongoDB and RethinkDB immediately come to mind).

Re: RethinkDB is shutting down

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Post by nine_k »

tbrock wrote: post #5

I hope this isn't true. Having worked at/on multiple competitors I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work the RethinkDB team has done to make a great database and development platform. This was real technology! I'm truly sad that the environment is such that great work like this can't continue to be funded. Thanks for showing everyone how to write amazing documentation, caring about the fundamentals, an…

Ever thought what do these salespeople do in a software company? This is what happens when salespeople fail to do enough of their thing.

Sales are essential for a for-profit company.

Re: RethinkDB is shutting down

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Post by hatchoo »

tbrock wrote: post #5

I hope this isn't true. Having worked at/on multiple competitors I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work the RethinkDB team has done to make a great database and development platform. This was real technology! I'm truly sad that the environment is such that great work like this can't continue to be funded. Thanks for showing everyone how to write amazing documentation, caring about the fundamentals, an…

Well, Slava himself posted the (sad) news so it can't be any more true than that.
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