<story><title>RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next</title><url>https://www.compose.com/articles/rethinkdb-and-compose-where-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>RethinkDB (the company) spent 7 years creating amazing value by building RethinkDB (the database) from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Compose.io probably only spent 1 or 2 months to incorporate it as part of their &amp;#x27;as-a-service&amp;#x27; offerings...&lt;p&gt;Guess which company actually survives and profits from all the value which was created?!&lt;p&gt;... And this &amp;#x27;news release&amp;#x27; from Compose.io is the business equivalent of a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mglukhovsky</author><text>I have to defend Compose.io here. They spent countless hours working alongside the RethinkDB team to debug problems, provide fixes, and improve the product.&lt;p&gt;We have always considered them key collaborators and contributors to the RethinkDB ecosystem. There is a conversation to be had about the difference in business models between RethinkDB and Compose.io, but I would never describe it as anything but friendly cooperation and mutual support.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad to hear that they expressed their dedication to preserving RethinkDB&amp;#x27;s open-source future. We&amp;#x27;re working to contact all the folks in our community to decide the next steps together. I&amp;#x27;m excited to keep working with them.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your kind words on our behalf. Hopefully the product we created together with the community will have a bright future.</text></comment>
<story><title>RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next</title><url>https://www.compose.com/articles/rethinkdb-and-compose-where-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>RethinkDB (the company) spent 7 years creating amazing value by building RethinkDB (the database) from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Compose.io probably only spent 1 or 2 months to incorporate it as part of their &amp;#x27;as-a-service&amp;#x27; offerings...&lt;p&gt;Guess which company actually survives and profits from all the value which was created?!&lt;p&gt;... And this &amp;#x27;news release&amp;#x27; from Compose.io is the business equivalent of a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m biased (was part of Compose, departed post acquisition), but I think that&amp;#x27;s a really reductionist take.&lt;p&gt;We spent 5 years building a platform for operating databases. Putting Rethink on that took a few months, yes.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the RethinkDB folks think it was a good move. :) They were by far our favorite DB company to work with.</text></comment>