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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

366 points · 306 comments · diek

  1. xnx · · focus · HN ↗
    TIL MongoDB is a publicly traded company.

    I can't imagine the future is bright for MongoDB as AI makes it much less painful to move off of legacy and/or overpriced software.

    1. Hasz · · focus · HN ↗
      Oracle is still making a very, very healthy amount of money on legacy db products. Momentum is a very powerful thing.
      1. jjice · · focus · HN ↗
        We're early on in the LLM era, so I have hope that it can crush Oracle's business model. That said, your database is probably the hardest part of your application to migrate off of...
        1. lenerdenator · · focus · HN ↗
          I was thinking maybe investigations and prison time should crush Oracle's business model.

          They bought Cerner early in the decade and have whittled it down to absolutely nothing. This is a problem when the software that Cerner sold was EMRs and I have people who used to work there telling me that the perioperative and anesthesia suites now have one person working on them, and no one's fixing issues.

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