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How does David vs. Goliath apply to any of these projects?

Kubernetes was developed, paid for and released by Google and loosely inspired by Borg.

ElasticSearch meanwhile wouldn't exist without Lucene which was again paid for and released by Excite in 1999, and who were very much not a David at the time.

PostgreSQL came out of Berkeley.. is the idea that David is the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (which includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees)? Or maybe it's EDB (https://www.enterprisedb.com/)?



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