The Importance of Open Source Projects

We couldn't afford the enterprise licensing. We didn't want to pay for enterprise licensing. So we made a conscious decision to move to open source as we went to cloud. This was one way we cut our costs because, you know, Cassandra is a lot cheaper than Oracle. And then there were two other reasons for doing open source. There were like three or four different reasons. Netflix wanted better hire people that were interesting people that had open source project experience. I spent a lot of time encouraging Capital One to do that. The final reason was to build a technology brand for Netflix.