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Deep Dive into RavenDB webinars

Mar 02 2022

RecordingRavenDB–a really boring database

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Dejan is talking about RavenDB here:

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02 Mar 2022
12:48 PM

Thomas

It would be boring if one didn't have to worry about an expiring licence every few months. Or not have to scrupulously optimise every operation, because you are limited to a single small core in the cluster in the free version. Other databases are much more boring ;)

06 Mar 2022
09:39 AM

Oren Eini

Thomas,

That is part of why we are boring, actually. See this post: https://ayende.com/blog/186147-A/making-money-from-open-source-software-how-we-do-it

We don't have to consider support as a revenue center, instead, we can focus on high quality software, that doesn't need expensive support contracts, which is how most of our competitors are making money.

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