Mostly FUD of a supposed opensource monetization debacle on the aftermath of Amazon DocumentDB.<p>Not every opensource monetization scheme is the same. Mongo and Gitlab are not the same. One is mission-critical production software, the other is a productivity tool (which can become critical, but in a different manner), thus different ways to monetize. Hashicorp, Canonical, Mesosphere and NodeBB are not nearly the same. Why put everyone on the same pot?<p>Opensource is not an industry. Opensource is a guarantee, a certificate of transparency. Opensource is global-scale collaboration. And much more.<p>Neither is everyone <i>moving everything</i> to fully-managed PaaS, at least not in the way described by the OP, who assumes a lot of givens there. Many use cloud infrastructure, but not all the services, some have private clouds or other hybrid setups.<p>Application platforms are constantly changing, why now assume Mongo or any other opensource models are doomed? MongoDB Inc. is a public company and is perfectly capable of defending their bottom line against a magnificently sized but over-committed competitor like AWS. Mongo has NOT done a good job with their PaaS or enterprise tooling so far, competitors have popped up, so now they have to up their game, that's all.<p>To underestimate OSS monetization is very presumptuous. To compare musical recordings, an end to itself, to infrastructure mission-critical software is downright stupid.