Interesting. Seems lots of similar companies doing this. Appcelerator / Sencha come to mind as I work with their products. Sencha seems to have the same arrangement as 10gen license wise (I think), yet they get massive amounts of shit since they started with BSD and then switched later to GPL (with commercial license for commercial apps).
I don't think there's really enough examples to prove this to be a viable business model just yet. These companies seem to be mainly living off VC funding, hoping to get a MySQL style exit at some point.
Hopefully I'm wrong though and they are able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a company can build a lucrative business off an open source platform. Maybe there's enough examples out there (WordPress / others?) that it's already been proven.
I don't think there's really enough examples to prove this to be a viable business model just yet. These companies seem to be mainly living off VC funding, hoping to get a MySQL style exit at some point.
Hopefully I'm wrong though and they are able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a company can build a lucrative business off an open source platform. Maybe there's enough examples out there (WordPress / others?) that it's already been proven.