Mailing the story:
Where the open source InfluxDB time series database is going
Something that is definitely very true today, and it was also true in 2013, is that developers want to work with open source tools. The tools developers choose to build their applications with are essentially how they're building their career. Those tools are going to be line items in their resume that says, I know this technology, I can build with these tools. So realistically, they want to adopt open source because they can take that from job to job, company to company and from cloud provider to cloud provider.