The Ledger

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Waters: Enterprise buyers use open source to guard against Oracle lock-in
“So what buyers are trying to escape from, and one reason they want open source as a Protective measure, even if they don't use it, is the right to keep using their software without paying more and more for it every year. Companies like Oracle have been out the…”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:28 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Waters: Early MongoDB sold $4,000 support contracts to thousands of users
“And I remember meeting MongoDB when they were early in their rise and they were selling, you know, a 4000 dollar support contract to thousands of users.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:42 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Assertion Contradicted
Waters: Sun lost hundreds of millions overnight making OpenSolaris free
“Well, what happened was that overnight, like hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue evaporated.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:32 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Assertion Supported
VMware bought open-source SpringSource for over $400M
“SpringSource is like the most popular Java programming framework in the world, bought by VMware for pretty famous money, over four hundred million dollars as an open source project.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:52 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
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