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

John Leonard
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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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