Ghodsi: On-prem open-source vendors sell services masquerading as software
Ali Ghodsi · The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi · Dec 7, 2021 · at 13:14
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi explains to Linux Foundation Chair Nithya Ruff why early Hadoop vendors struggled to maintain enterprise customer lock-in.
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“So the business models were not robust in the sense that really, it was really selling services masqueraded as software.”
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