[grayfox]

> ... And this 'news release' from Compose.io is the business equivalent of a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother.

That is brutal, for conjecture.

A fledgling open-source DB winding up on an as-a-service provider can provide mutual benefit; the database gets users running their product on a stable, consistent platform and the provider can profit from the margins on the value-added deployments they provision.

Hardly 'a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother'...