[catwell]

Salvatore is an employee of Redis Labs since 2015. AFAIK he still owns Redis itself personally, which is a very good thing.

That doesn't mean Redis Labs is the only Redis provider you should consider though. For instance, OpenRedis has been founded before Redis Labs (early 2011) by people who have been very involved with the community (contributed the Ruby and Lua clients, the original website...). They are a much smaller company than Redis Labs (bootstrapped, when Redis Labs raised over $50M...) so it wouldn't make financial sense for them to have Salvatore on their payroll.

EDIT: Salvatore himself is addressing this on Twitter right now. https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032192722755571714

[sonarlunar]

Thanks catwell (saw in your profile you are pchapuis and I'm very appreciative for your work and contribution to Redis, from your content to your weekly newsletter and all).

I wasn't aware of OpenRedis and I agree with you that also OpenRedis should be supported. It makes sense to have diversity and all community efforts be supported to be viable and prosper for the benefit of the whole community.

Again, thanks for the link and your contributions.

[catwell]

> from your content to your weekly newsletter and all

I am pchapuis but I don't have a weekly newsletter :) Not sure what you are talking about.

I did contribute to Redis a little a long time ago, but for a few years I am mostly just a user.

[sonarlunar]

Sorry - perhaps confused you for someone else ;-)

Perhaps I know you from Lua community, dunno. Still a userid that I've seen before!

[catwell]

> Perhaps I know you from Lua community

That would make a lot more sense, I am pretty involved with the Lua community. :)