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by erlend_sh 3424 days ago
Hey Maarius, thanks for chiming in! I've had my eye on Cluvio for a while so I was gonna drop it in here to ask how the two compare.

For me, an open source core is a huge gesture of trust though. It's the ultimate "no lock-in strategy" guarantee. This business model has been proven sustainable by several SAAS companies, such as Automattic (WordPress.com), Discourse (which I work for), Sentry, Piwik and hopefully Redash well!

Any chance Cluvio will consider going down this path too?
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arikfr 3424 days ago
At the moment (and I hope to keep it this way), it's not only the core of Redash that is open source -- it's the whole product. There are a few features that are introduced on the hosted version first, for ease of development. But most of it goes to the open source first.

As we (Redash) use Discourse as well, it will be only fitting, to have Discourse use Redash :-)

(btw, Sentry are Redash users as well[1])

Feel free to ping me (arik at redash.io).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599631

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Maarius 3423 days ago
Good question! Our aim is to build the best cloud BI platform for SMEs and we currently don't plan to open source Cluvio. However, we do offer a "free forever" plan that allows you to use our platform for free, indefinitely.
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