Great enterprise IT products that went dead, and alternatives to them

ClusterPoint – one of the greatest distributed databases ever. Best alternatives I could find are DataStax Enterprise and Couchbase.

Infinit.sh – one of the greatest distributed file systems. Acquired by Docker in 2016. Nothing new since 2017. Website shut down in 2018, got back up in 2019 but reverted to what it was in 2015. Got overtaken by Infinit Marketing in 2021. Shut down again in early spring of 2022. If Docker didn’t acquire Infinit, none of this would have happened. Some alternatives include OpenIO and Scality RING.

FormationData – Went out of business in 2016-2017. I didn’t even know it existed until April 14 of 2022. May have been even greater than Infinit. https://www.formationdata.com.au/ says “Configured for Dialog Group” in the same font size you typically see on paragraphs. Some alternatives are Nutanix ECP, Stonefly, Commvault Hedvig and HyperScale X, DataCore SANSymphony, and Quobyte. Edit: DataDirect Networks is great, with EXAScaler and GRIDSCaler.

StratoScale Symphony – went out of business in 2019. Website remained up until early 2022 but with nothing new. Best alternatives I know of are Nutanix ECP and Virtuozzo.

Bottom line: if a corporation goes out of business for good, the copyright to all its products should ALWAYS be for sale. I’m NOT saying they should automatically go into the public domain, because generally they shouldn’t. Instead, they should be open for any business to purchase them.