AWS and Mongo and Open Source
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AWS and #mongodb and Open SourceMany people seem to think that the AWS and MongoDB story is about cloud providers and Open Source business models — but the core of it is in fact about cloud providers and selling software licenses. Many companies around Open Source projects make money by also selling licenses to some additional proprietary software but all companies around proprietary software sell licenses.Selling licenses is hard in the presence of cloud providers because cloud providers have a better product, they sell the whole thing, while a license is only a part of the solution. People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.Let me quote Ben Thompson from the linked article:There is a secular shift in enterprise computing moving to the cloud, not because (...)