Basho has experienced some MAJOR brain drain in the last year. I wonder if this re-positioning is related to that.
To be honest, the repositioning isn't really a response to the brain drain -- it's a reflection of a changing culture at Basho that was the cause of the brain drain in the first place. The primary reason I left Basho is that I felt the company was turning into a "don't invent here" culture, the polar opposite of "not invented here". The goal was no longer to solve hard distributed systems problems and build amazing t…
Thanks for the context - I'm not sure if we've met, but I definitely know and respect your work. Of course there are compromises with this approach, but unfortunately I need a set of capabilities that are not currently available from a single source. Ultimately this just another entrant in a field of options, some of which have evolved in a similarly ad hoc fashion (though one I'm looking at has been under development for 25 years). I hope it can at least hold its own.