How a commercial open-source software company should develop & price open-core products to fight the hyper-cloud “service-wrappers”. (Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash; Are you still open for contributions?) Dbt Labs, formerly Fishtown Analytics, recently did a large Series C. In the announcement blog post, Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt Labs outlined the major risk he currently sees for open-core products like the one dbt Labs sells: commoditization by the hyper-clouds. Turns out, Sid Sijbrandji, CEO of GitLab, also a company selling an open-core product, thinks very much alike. He has a thorough analysis of how an open-core product can […]