So can someone tell me what the monetization scheme is for Meteor and other frameworks like it? Is there one? Or is this purely for the joy of the code? Seriously...
We think of it like the difference between git and GitHub. git is free and open source, both the client and the server. But many people prefer to use GitHub, which puts a nice management interface on top of the server. And if you are a company and want GitHub inside your firewall, then you can write a check and download GitHub Enterprise, which is a copy of GitHub that comes as a machine image that you start on your own hardware.
Our plan is to build nice management tools for Meteor deployments, and make money primarily by selling an enterprise-ready version of those tools to companies that are large enough to need them, analogous to GitHub Enterprise.
Ultimately the big idea behind the company is to improve the developer experience of the entire application lifecycle, from writing your app, to testing it, to deploying it, to monitoring and scaling it. I think that modern frameworks need a story for all of these pieces.
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So can someone tell me what the monetization scheme is for Meteor and other frameworks like it? Is there one? Or is this purely for the joy of the code? Seriously...
Meteor CEO here. miles_matthias's got it right.
We think of it like the difference between git and GitHub. git is free and open source, both the client and the server. But many people prefer to use GitHub, which puts a nice management interface on top of the server. And if you are a company and want GitHub inside your firewall, then you can write a check and download GitHub Enterprise, which is a copy of GitHub that comes as a machine image that you start on your own hardware.
Our plan is to build nice management tools for Meteor deployments, and make money primarily by selling an enterprise-ready version of those tools to companies that are large enough to need them, analogous to GitHub Enterprise.
Ultimately the big idea behind the company is to improve the developer experience of the entire application lifecycle, from writing your app, to testing it, to deploying it, to monitoring and scaling it. I think that modern frameworks need a story for all of these pieces.
Google that and you'll find a blog post by their CEO about their product strategy - enterprise deployment tools for purchase.
My guess is that the meteor team will also be the heroku of the meteor ecosystem.