by Angela Guess
Matt Asay of The Register recently wrote, “Increasingly the third standard within enterprises for databases, MongoDB, has been claiming a lot of victories lately. In relative terms, it has become the second-hottest skill to have on one’s resume, right after HTML5, according to Indeed.com job trend data. And despite plenty of hating on its technology, with one person telling me recently that ‘it sets database technology back 25 years,’ MongoDB continues to get deployed for numerous, large mission-critical applications.”
Asay continues, “So what does this mean for 10gen, MongoDB’s primary corporate sponsor and developer? After all, “lots of users” doesn’t always translate into “lots of revenue” in open source land. In fact, it’s often the case that the easier it is for developers to adopt and deploy open-source software, the less willing they are to pay for it. I’ve termed this ‘the open source dilemma,’ and it has kept many an open source company from capitalizing on the popularity of the open-source projects they sponsor.”
