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barking on May 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in ...

Sorry if this is a little bit off topic This is a startup with employees that is making a non-commercial open source database system. How will they make a financial return on such a product?

sgarman on May 4, 2016 [–]

It's common in the industry to build an open source product and then do paid support, hosting, etc with it.

Joyent/Node Sonatype Nexus

barking on May 4, 2016 | [–]

OK thanks, I sort of thought that it might be something like that but wondered if I was missing some other angle.

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