[sneilan1]

I'm confused as to why Julia, a programming language is worth so much money. If the makers of Julia have already given away their source code here, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia what are they selling that's worth a 24 million series A round?

Is the Julia business model similar to Redhat or Canonical where they sell consulting services?

[freemint]

Julia Computing is a company that employs (some of) the core contributors of Julia and develops enterprise solutions.

Such as:

- the first Julia IDE Juni now depreciated.

- On premise package server

- A wrapper over AWS called JuliaRun that has a nice web interface

- paid "we make a core developer stare at RR traces of your problems"

- FDA approved software for drug development and pharmacokinetics as https://juliacomputing.com/products/pumas/

It is not the programming language that is the product.

[amkkma]

Hi. Good question.

This is addressed in several places in the comment thread by Keno and Chris.

[sneilan1]

Thank you. I'll do a search for that.