[thewataccount]

> Then, final database exports will be available for download through July 29.

Hope nobody was using bit.io as a set and forget solution...

Which I thought was the entire point of the cloud hosted databases?

[ibejoeb]

> Your databases will continue to work through June 29.

This is crazy. 30 days to migrate? Hope nobody is taking a holiday in the next couple of weeks.

[thewataccount]

I'm surprised databricks (effectively) is willing to shutter a database service with 1 months notice.

What does that say about their own products? What if you integrate their products and are locked to their platform without any easy migration options?

If they lose interest on one of their own services, you very well may have 1 month to move, and 2 months to have a chance at keeping your data.

[ibejoeb]

Seriously. Well, I guess their customer roster isn't all that impressive. Sounds like they're willing to burn them.

[jen20]

The problem is the signal it sends to Databricks' other customers about how they will be treated in future.

[glogla]

Databricks is very much like Microsoft or Oracle - it is not sold by technical merit but by sales slides for CTOs. It is unfortunate but this will not impact their bottom line at all, because technical people already overwhelmingly don't want Databricks.

[neilv]

Is it effectively Databricks that is shutting down an infrastructure solution on short notice?

I'm not thinking about whatever legal technicalities could be debated by lawyers, but what real-world truth is.

[paulddraper]

You thought correctly.