Ghodsi: The SaaS model applied to open-source technology will dominate
Ali Ghodsi · The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi · Dec 7, 2021 · at 28:16
Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, discusses the commercial open-source business model with Linux Foundation Chair Nithya Ruff, arguing that cloud-delivered SaaS solves historical enterprise open-source adoption issues.
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“I think the SAS model applied to open source is gonna be really disruptive. And, you know, so people, because of this transition period, we had these on-prem open source vendors. People think maybe open source won't work in the future in the cloud, but I think people are gonna see that slowly you're gonna find lots of companies like Databricks that Open source technology and then offer it as a SaaS service, and they're going to be the ones that are going to be dominant in this new sort of SaaS era, so.”
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