most importantly in terms of numbers, there is nothing going for them. they arent exactly redhat level in terms of support, nor rackspace level for subscriptions, and nor snapchat level in terms of market reach. this looks like some last effort cash out sort of deal to me. weird to say that its somewhat of a sad outcome for an once promising opensource company.
After several Jepsen's article on how bad MongoDB is with the Taylor Swift reference.
Also the notorious wave of MongoDB hacked with terrible security defaults and several programmers blaming bootcamp coders for terrible set up.
I think MongoDB had to do some damage control and wake up.
They apparently are working with him now.
Quick google as proof: https://aphyr.com/posts/338-jepsen-mongodb-3-4-0-rc3
the database market is one of the biggest software markets out there, if not the biggest.
>their losing a lot of steam as of late
at least according ot google trends, mongodb is more popular than ever.
>last effort cash out sort of deal to me
they're hiring like crazy and looking to grow a ton in the next year, so I don't think that's the case.
They only address a very small subset of the database market.
(I still think MongoDB, the company, isn't particularly great for the usual reasons re their past behaviour, I'm just imagining what they'd tell their investors)
I've down-voted you not because I disagree fundamentally (although I don't rate MongoDB) but because you are dismantling an argument badly. I hope that isn't too rude.
I agree that MongoDB is considered for many new projects but they will have very low market share for existing enterprise projects (which is where the money is).