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Given the standoff between Elastic and AWS, MongoDB is the better bet going forward while Elastic is the worse one.

Paul Dix, CTO of InfluxData, shared his investment-style take on the dispute, saying he's 'long on Mongo and short on Elastic' amid the standoff with AWS. ✦ AI generated

Paul Dix · The Changelog · 2021-02-17 · original ↗

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Paul Dix is the co-founder and CTO at InfluxData and shared his perspective on running an open source business, how InfluxData is innovating their commercial offering while having a permissive MIT licensed version of InfluxDB. Paul also shares his thoughts on the stand off between Elastic and AWS and why he's long on Mongo and short on Elastic.

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Paul Dix

Paul Dix is the co-founder and CTO at InfluxData and shared his perspective on running an open source business, how InfluxData is innovating their commercial offering while having a permissive MIT licensed version of InfluxDB. Paul also shares his thoughts on the stand off between Elastic and AWS and why he’s long on Mongo and short on Elastic.

Paul shared a few links to Twitter threads he started:

https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352604892754542594

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