A highlight from the article:
“Startups that spring from the open-source world use their domain knowledge to underline their indispensability to the projects they support. Databricks’ deep involvement Apache Spark helped burnished its image as the best commercial partner for companies wanting to use that technology. Dremio Corp. does the same with Apache Arrow, Ververica GmbH with Apache Flink and Confluent Inc., which filed for an IPO in April, with Apache Kafka.”
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