Open Standards, Licensing, and Open Source – Lessons for the Document Database Community from Microsoft’s Move to Open Source

Mark Stone

ex-Product Manager
DataStax

12:00 PM EST

August 23rd

Online

Meetup Description

Twelve years ago growing voices inside of Microsoft pushed for the company to participate more significantly in open source software.

Obstacles were significant:

  • The company worried about liability triggered by downstream users.
  • The community worried about the potentially heavy-handed approach of a company as large as Microsoft.

But an honest commitment to collaboration, and some initial building blocks around open standards ultimately led to Microsoft being the more full-fledged participant it is today. There’s a lot the Document Database community can learn from this experience.

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About Speaker

Mark Stone

ex-Product Manager
DataStax

Mark Stone is a technology veteran with many years of experience in product management, program management and people management. Always working as part of the connective tissue between business stakeholders and technical stakeholders, Mark loves championing the developer experience in technology platforms and helping organizations meet developers where they are.