Is there a company with a NoSQL product that is selling support contracts and is listed with Dun & Bradstreet? What do the reports from Gartner and Forrester Research say? Can I sue someone if something goes wrong. Did the options get evaluated with the corporate IT database committee?
The sad part is that is how it works in a lot of companies and not just a bunch of snark. Since SQL is so entrenched and most IT shops have contractual relations with SQL vendors with lots of money (Microsoft and Oracle), I don't see a lot of ability to get NoSQL into the enterprise environment. Not to mention the legacy software that means SQL Databases are needed, so why add a whole new type?
My company CouchOne offers commercial support for CouchDB (which consequently has quite a bit of enterprise uptake, contrary to Stonebraker's assertions).
I think there is something to the argument that without commercial support, companies won't be adopting these technologies.
I try to look at the bigger picture think how can companies like yours help companies like mine starting up so we can tear down the entrenched SQL forces.
Sounds like a terrible idea to me. What you should be doing is building new things where SQL is not such a good solution, rather than "tearing things down".
The sad part is that is how it works in a lot of companies and not just a bunch of snark. Since SQL is so entrenched and most IT shops have contractual relations with SQL vendors with lots of money (Microsoft and Oracle), I don't see a lot of ability to get NoSQL into the enterprise environment. Not to mention the legacy software that means SQL Databases are needed, so why add a whole new type?