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The big cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud act as a humongous marketing funnel for open source businesses such as MongoDB and Elastic.
Adam Jacob argued that hyperscale clouds hosting open-source software actually generate a massive marketing funnel that benefits companies like Mongo and Elastic rather than purely harming them. ✦ AI generated
Adam Jacob · The Changelog · 2021-02-17 · original ↗
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We pulled a segment from that episode where we talk about business models and how they correlate to open source business models, and how from Adam's perspective…the AWS's, the Azure's and the Google Clouds of the world provide a humongous marketing funnel for open source businesses like Mongo and Elastic.
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Adam Jacob is the co-founder and board member of Chef and talked with us back in July 2019 on The Changelog #353 about “The war for the soul of open source,” and the title of the episode could not have been more prophetic.
We pulled a segment from that episode where we talk about business models and how they correlate to open source business models, and how from Adam’s perspective…the AWS’s, the Azure’s and the Google Clouds of the world provide a humongous marketing funnel for open source businesses like Mongo and Elastic.
At the time of this conversation with Adam, Elastic was worth 1.5 Billion dollars and “killing it.”
Adam Jacob at OSCON 2019 “The war for the soul of open source!”
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