[NYC Meetup Livestream]: Choosing Between Open and Closed Source Data Products: A Fireside Chat
Presented by:
Greg Dostatni
Greg is an experienced IT professional with over 20 years of experience in higher education. Starting as a developer, he worked on software to manage Search and Rescue incidents ans urban crowd movement simulations. He has a background as a DBA / System Administrator working with Oracle and PostgreSQL in Solaris and Linux. Greg has later transitioned into building and managing applications and services for a large university in Canada, including designing developing and managing large shared database environments. Greg is committed to using technology to solve problems both at home and in professional setting.
Kevin Jernigan
Kevin leads the product team for AlloyDB Omni, the downloadable edition of Google’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL service. Prior to joining Google, he spent two years at MongoDB leading the product team for MongoDB Atlas Serverless. Before MongoDB, Kevin led the product effort for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL at AWS, and previously led a product management team in the Oracle Database team with responsibility for about two dozen core database features. He built multiple startups before Oracle, and started his career at Oracle back when the company had 800 employees.
When choosing between Open Source Software (OSS) and Closed Source Software (CSS), organizations must consider factors like support, customization, security, compliance and long term cost. OSS provides flexibility and cost advantages, but may require internal expertise for maintenance and development or creative problem solving when navigating non-traditional support structures. CSS offers traditional vendor support and stability of a defined roadmap, but often comes with higher costs and vendor lock-in risks. Ultimately, which choice is right for your organization depends on your resources, needs, and priorities.
Join us on Tuesday, March 11 from 6pm - 8pm for an in depth discussion with DBA and Open Source advocate, Greg Dostatni, and Kevin Jernigan, Product Manager @ Google Cloud. Attendees will walk away with the questions and considerations that will help them explore where open and close source technologies fit best within their organizations.
RSVP is required to attend in person at:
Google Pier 57 29 11th Avenue · New York, NY
- Date:
- 2025 March 11 18:00 EDT
- Duration:
- 50 min
- Room:
- Online
- Conference:
- 2025 Postgres World Webinar Series
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- Difficulty:
- Medium
- Requires Registration:
- Yes (Registered: 24)