Some interesting stuff about the relationship between enterprise and open source. I know the 'risks' section is always to be taken with a pinch of salt, but I found this interesting.
> Software developers, including those within our customers’ IT departments, are often familiar with our underlying technology and value proposition. We rely on their continued adoption of our offering to evangelize on our behalf within their organizations and increase reach and mindshare within the developer community.
> Actions that we have taken in the past or may take in the future with respect to Apache Kafka or our community license, including the development and growth of our proprietary offering, may be perceived negatively by the developer community and harm our reputation.
They know that there's a fine line between making enough open source to be seen as 'really' open source software. The 'open core' model is sometimes abused where they intentionally cripple the open-source version to prod people towards the closed one.
Also confirms what I have heard from a lot of smaller developer-tools companies - 'traditional' marketing and sales doesn't really work, and they go to pretty big efforts to get support from the bottom up, instead of taking the CIO to a fancy conference.
> Software developers, including those within our customers’ IT departments, are often familiar with our underlying technology and value proposition. We rely on their continued adoption of our offering to evangelize on our behalf within their organizations and increase reach and mindshare within the developer community.
> Actions that we have taken in the past or may take in the future with respect to Apache Kafka or our community license, including the development and growth of our proprietary offering, may be perceived negatively by the developer community and harm our reputation.
They know that there's a fine line between making enough open source to be seen as 'really' open source software. The 'open core' model is sometimes abused where they intentionally cripple the open-source version to prod people towards the closed one.
Also confirms what I have heard from a lot of smaller developer-tools companies - 'traditional' marketing and sales doesn't really work, and they go to pretty big efforts to get support from the bottom up, instead of taking the CIO to a fancy conference.