The valuation itself is so large. [Tabular] is such a small company. But it was also surprising in that Apache Iceberg is free. If you want to become a part of the Apache Iceberg community and drive its development, all you have to do is contribute code and engineering time. Spending that much money to contribute to Apache Iceberg is... well, it's a decision, says Spitzer.
Definitely some folks in the community were a little worried about it. I wasn't because the people I know who have gone to Databricks are true believers in the Apache way of doing things; true believers in open source.
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