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Ghodsi: All proprietary software is vulnerable to disruption by open source
“In fact, I think open source has the potential to replace pretty much any software that's, Any proprietary software that exists on the planet today is, you know, in a really vulnerable state in the sense that it can be disrupted by an open source version, righ…”
Ghodsi: On-prem open-source vendors sell services masquerading as software
“So the business models were not robust in the sense that really, it was really selling services masqueraded as software.”
Ghodsi: Red Hat was the only successful on-prem open source model
“We thought there was one example of a good one, which was Red Hat, but there weren't many other examples that were doing well, and now we've seen Red Hat, you know, also, you know, did not survive as an independent company.”
Ghodsi: Multi-cloud support will be mandatory for enterprise software by 2023
“And I think this is a secular trend. So in a couple of years, I think it's going to be an absolute requirement. Like I don't want to, if your software only works on this cloud, I'm not sure I'm just going to be in this cloud.”
Ghodsi: Most COVID-19 vaccine development teams quietly used lakehouse architectures
“They don't want to talk openly about it, but most of those vaccine teams behind the scenes built basically what we call the lake house. We stole all your data, store all your data and do AI on it. And it was really used for these sort of vaccine development bo…”
Ghodsi: Bottom-up open-source adoption accelerates enterprise sales cycles
“With open source, you have people in the room that will raise their hand and say, I know what Spark is. I've already used it. I downloaded it on my laptop at home. I know how this Delta, I'm a big fan. I know what this is. So that moves things along much faste…”
Ghodsi: Open-source development attracts better engineering talent
“If you, if you're doing open source development within your company, you can attract much better engineers, because you can tell them, Come here, work here. You can work on these projects, and you can put these on your CV, and when your next employer asks you …”
Ghodsi: Open-source companies must separate corporate brands from project names
“From early on, we said, look technology comes and goes. Spark in 10 years will have probably aged and hopefully we'll come up with other innovations, so let's pick a name that separates the company from the open source technology, and hopefully we can continue…”
Ghodsi: The SaaS model applied to open-source technology will dominate
“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…”