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Microsoft Acquires Another Open-Source Company, Citus Data (cnbc.com)
Microsoft on Thursday said that it's acquiring Citus Data, a start-up that has commercialized open-source database software called PostgreSQL. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. From a report: The deal could help Microsoft make its argument that it supports open-source technologies, particularly in the cloud, while continuing to make money from popular proprietary software like Windows and Office. In the cloud business, Microsoft wants to use openness as a way to pick up business amid competition from Google, market leader Amazon and others. Currently, Citus Data's website advertises a version of its database software that's hosted on Amazon Web Services. Microsoft's blog post announcing the acquisition mentions the competing Azure cloud 10 times.
Engulf and Devour strikes again!
Socializing things when they take something, privatizing things when they give something.
Because when you're a psychopath capitalist, profit trumps ALL the things. Lives, human rights, a survivable environment, ...
Profit for and only for profit's sake, of course. No actual purpose that the money is amassed for. No need for the money to even be real wealth. Only the numbers need to go up, even if inflation is one of them.
Don't they realize they're harming even themselves?
Or will I now be called an "idiot" again by the willful-non-thinkers?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Like MySQL, perhaps it's time for the visionaries from Postgres to fork this database. Microsoft may claim to be "pro open source" but I remember when Microsoft tried to kill the progress of Linux distro distribution calling it "unamerican" (among other things). Oracle tried (and failed thank god), purchased Sun MicroSystems looking for opportunities make money off or limit/kill MySQL ( which the EU prevented as a condition of the deal), and put restrictions on OpenOffice, Java and Solaris. The devs of MySQL didn't trust them ( and created MariaDB), the devs from OpenOffice didn't trust them (creating LibreOffice) and fortunately there is an open source version of Java. A tiger doesn't change it's stripes just because it starts to purr. It's still a dangerous animal when it sees an opportunity. The latest offerings of MS are more intrusive (data spying/extraction), more draconian (Windows 10, you can't really control the updates or the information it takes from your files (and forwards to the US Government)) and expensive than ever before (especially when Windows 10 becomes subscription (like rent-an-os) rather than one time buy for life, just like MS Office (Office 365, which takes money AND your data. Mark Twain would have a field day...). Given that MS is being sued by the EU for extracting private data illegally under Dutch law and are pushing their subscription based products harder than they've pushed anything before, its kind of hard to believe they want to play nice with anybody, including open source groups/products. More likely they want to control/limit/poison the biggest contributors to the open source developments. Gitlab, and now Postgres. And everything they purchase and alter for their agenda suffers. (Minecraft anyone?) So, please past the forks, and let's stick a knife in MS's effort to taint the pool. Diversity breeds strength. We need more. PS: I'm a bit disappointed that Cirus Data sold to MS of all people. Couldn't they find anybody more trustworthy, or was it just the dollars talking. (retorical question, we all know the answer)
They matket an add-on to helpit scale and they offer PostgreSQL as SaaS.
Relax;
-- Steve Ballmer
creimer's butthole acquired pints of my baby batter when I was going to pound town on his ass.
Indeed, when you contribute to FOSS, you voluntarily allocating your resources (e.g., time, money, talent, labor, mind, etc.)
FOSS is capitalism.
The deal could help Microsoft make its argument that it supports open-source technologies.
Yeah, right.
GPL is a virus forcing to the developers and distributors to reveal their source codes.
So everyone knows Citus is a PG Extension to allow for distributed queries, it is *not* the postgresql project itself.
'Open source' is a threat to Microsoft profits therefore acquiring and destroying Open Source is on their 'to do' list. Microsoft wants to be the one and only source of an operating system and software in the world and they don't care what they have to do to achieve that.
I don't see any offerings from Citus Data which are open source.
to take everything and make it part of a subscription. Notice how we don't "own" anything anymore? Everything is based off the subscription model. Software, streaming TV, streaming music, Amazon Prime, G Suite, Office 365, mobile phone service, on and on.
The ability to control anything is being removed. In the not too distant future, cash will be largely gone, replaced with digital currency in one form or another. People will have zero privacy other than what is allowed, and that is already precious little.
It would be nice if people posting these store enhance the content so it's not just the click bait that the media outlets insist on
To socialize something is to put a gun at people's heads and force them against their will to do something.
Yet, under Capitalism, property rights are sacred, and thus socializing something is not allowed. So, you are not describing capitalism; rather, you are describing something elseâ"some brand of authoritarianism, perhaps cronyism.
Get your head out of your ass, and start thinking about what you're saying.
They just want to compete with AWS and have a pgsql offering that is managed. Having little to no talent in operating pgsql at scale they had to buy it.