Enterprise Soaring Success
Linux Format|October 2019

Mayank Shama meets Robin Schumacher of DataStax to talk about  building success with open source while nurturing the community.

Mayank Shama
Enterprise Soaring Success

Back in the days when virtually all open-source software was licensed under the GPL, building a business around it was quite a challenge. MySQL was one of the first projects that attempted to create a true-blue ‘enterprise open source’ product by creating new licensing terms and adding exceptions to work around restrictive licensing. The proliferation of permissive licenses opened the flood gates, both for the use of open-source software in the enterprise and for setting up professional support business around these products.

Despite the fact that these days virtually all major open-source software has a corporate backer that works with the community, mixing the two without burning your fingers is quite a balancing act. We caught up with Robin Schumacher, SVP of Products at DataStax, at the company’s Accelerate conference in Washington, to better understand its relationship with the open-source Apache Cassandra community. We wanted to see how it contributes to the open-source project, and what it takes to offer commercial solutions based on a freely-available piece of software.

Robin is a been-there, done-that kind of guy and has worked up and down the corporate food chain. He has been tinkering with all kinds of databases in one form or another for about three decades, first as a database administrator and then making software for DBAs, before heading enterprise product teams at companies such as MySQL AB and EnterpriseDB.

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