Extremely successful Open Source project troubled monetizing for profitability - Regional Sales Executive Redis Employee Review

Nobody buys anything they can get for free and Redis' Open Source Caching solution does everything most implementations need, plus super easy to setup and stable as a rock, elegant for DEVs and predictable for Ops. Worsened mainly by these (3) facts: - Redis Open Source 'Caching' has been forked by all of the cloud vendors where they offer a direct competing solution - Cloud Provider forked solutions are positioned on cloud marketplace portals right next to Redis Ent offerings - Cloud vendors can basically give their forked 'Caching' solution away at whatever discount necessary to protect their cloud's ability to attract, maintain and expand client's required machine instances and compute