Interview: MongoDB cofounder Eliot Horowitz - 'I'd like to see a fair fight with the cloud providers'

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Horowitz: 'We're the ones adding new features and I'm confident that ours will be better indefinitely'
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Horowitz: 'We're the ones adding new features and I'm confident that ours will be better indefinitely'

Horowitz discusses MongoDB's licensing and how he wants to see more VC money being ploughed into core open source

This time last year, MongoDB controversially introduced a new software licence in a bid to tackle the problem, as the firm saw it, of cloud service providers (CSPs) selling hosted versions of its s...

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