Member-only story
Since Thomas Kurian left Oracle and joined Google, there has been a sense of positive change in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). At Oracle Kurian was known to be at odds with Larry Ellison — who was not keen for Oracle to make its suite of software available to run on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Kurian also seems to learn from Satya Nadella in recognizing the importance of building trust and partnership with the open source developer community.
Google has a long history of developing technology and making it available in open source to foster innovation. Recently the open source community has found cloud providers are not partnering with them, but attempting to take away their ability to monetize open source. We as Google do not believe that is good for customers, the developer community or for software innovation.
Thomas Kurian, CEO GCP
Confluent was spun out of LinkedIn in 2014 from a team of engineers inspired to create a commercial venture around Apache Kafka — a popular open-source data streaming platform that uses the “event streaming” architectural pattern.
