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Stephen Ebrey's avatar

I think this is all true of some Enterprises... but for some it's the exact opposite. Some REQUIRE open source and/or self hosted solutions because they know exactly what code is being run, and where. For example Datacoves (https://datacoves.com/) primarily exists to provide dbt to Enterprise companies whose InfoSec teams won't let them use dbt Cloud.

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David Jayatillake's avatar

Yes this is definitely true but often they are paying for consultancy who deploys OSS they either build or know works. Then the consulting becomes the service they’re buying, where liability can be assigned.

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Arynn MP's avatar

The enterprise, this "illusive, quiet group", seemingly has a much different life than people at smaller companies. At the end of the day, data is still data. It's funny how it all works out like this, though.

"The enterprise won’t let you use an open-source orchestrator to run anything on its infrastructure." That gave me a good laugh, because it's so true. I've worked at massive enterprises and if I had brought this up, I'd have been laughed out of the room.

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David Jayatillake's avatar

I didn't mean them to sound illusive and quiet 😄. I meant them to sound huge and oppressive... they're coming for you!

I've been thinking about how enterprise priorities vs startup ones massively affect what's important in a product.

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