Here’s the Message I Sent Welcoming Percona’s New CEO Peter Farkas
10/08/2025
First, I want to give a big thank-you to Bennie Grant, who has been our Interim CEO over the...
Thoughts on ScyllaDB License Change
12/26/2024
As you may have heard, ScyllaDB is moving to a Source Available License. Seeing this move from so many...
Thinking Like a Banker vs Startup Investor
11/26/2024
I played with the rather unconventional thought of viewing life choices through the mindset of startup investors and bankers....
Open Source Business Models: Open Core vs Crippled Core
06/04/2024
Open Core is one of the very common ways to build a business around Open Source Software. It goes...
The Ignorance as a Business Model
02/20/2024
Can Ignorance be a Business Model? Surely, especially if it is not your ignorance! Counting on ignorance is exactly...
Open Source Business Models: Professional Services
02/14/2024
Open Source is not a Business Model, rather it can support quite a few different Business Models. In this...
Joining Coroot as Co-Founder
01/29/2024
From my early days as a Software Engineer, I was interested in complicated systems’ internal operations, what is happening...
Open Source Perspectives
01/08/2024
I think one reason there is so much argument about what Open Source is and what it should become...