[Scribbd]

I recently watched a YT video about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVgeMoXJTs

In summary, companies use the bus-metric to see how viable a project is. Bus, as in, how many people can be hit by a bus before there is no one left to maintain the project.

Despite its ubiquity, SQLite is maintained by only 3 people. That bus-metric for SQLite is 3, which is way too low for some companies.

Give the link a watch; it was really interesting.

[BenjiWiebe]

At least with SQLite, it is really stable so if development did cease, you'd probably be fine indefinitely.

[redeeman]

and anyone that considers this to be the case for sqlite, should probably have their reasoning skills examined.

if the unfortunate bus incident happens to sqlite developers, there is exactly ZERO chance that it will not be very well maintained on the count of all the users, many of whom already have support contracts going for decades, and which would require the same level of support they have already enjoyed.