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0 pointsjen201y ago0 comments

According to Wikipedia, Yugabyte (the company) has taken 290 million dollars of VC money. It's probably a safe assumption that they will follow the same path soon enough.

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spiffytech1y ago

While the future is unwritten, FWIW in 2019 Yugabyte moved to Apache 2.0, open-sourcing features that were previously paywalled.

They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...

redwood1y ago

How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?

riku_iki1y ago

This won't prevent them back to paywall in future if investors ask.

largbae1y ago

True, but unlike BSL you can fork the last Apache commit the day they do.

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