My view is that Datomic is a novel upstart in the persistence space. Most of their competition - Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra - is open-source, so they're just shooting themselves in the foot. The "pay us extra for convenient hosting and consulting" model isn't threatened by open-source in the slightest.
The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to compete with Oracle/Db2/SQL server, but I can't imagine an enterprise eyeing any of those solutions ever giving Datomic a chance.
My view is that Datomic is a novel upstart in the persistence space. Most of their competition - Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra - is open-source, so they're just shooting themselves in the foot. The "pay us extra for convenient hosting and consulting" model isn't threatened by open-source in the slightest.
The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to compete with Oracle/Db2/SQL server, but I can't imagine an enterprise eyeing any of those solutions ever giving Datomic a chance.