Company overview: Genezzo Systems
Genezzo Systems was formed in 2002 by Jeffrey Cohen. He is the president, and the only full time employee. The company currently exists in a pre-commercial state and has not yet licensed or sold any products. Genezzo Systems has developed the prototype of a next-generation distributed database architecture. The Genezzo flexible architecture was inspired by Cohen's frustrations as a developer at Oracle.
Virtually all aspects of Genezzo are designed for pluggable extensions, and many are capable of runtime changes. This enables architectural designs for massively parallel database capable of scaling beyond current commercial options. It also allows easy addition of scalable features such as encrypted tables, inexpensive replication and failover.
The project is in the early phases of organization and has yet to commercialize its database product. The motivation for including Genezzo in this study was to capture the pre-commercial attitudes and perspectives that many developers have before going into a commercial venture. This is important because many technology projects start as a pre-commercial or non-commercial venture and then graft on a business model after the fact. The roots of such tech startups can have important effects on its future business ramifications.
Genezzo's anticipated business emphasis is to provide a high end extensible and customizable distributed database system. It is targeting the fields of bio-informatics, data cleansing, and textual analysis. These application domains present problems for existing mature relational databases and thus an opportunity and niche for Genezzo's next-generation database features.
Cohen anticipates providing professional services for custom functionality development. These features would include customized index methods. The company would look at ways to develop specialized data mining functions. An example would be special matching functions for genetic analysis of genome databases.
Genezzo also anticipates starting with a variety of support packages including 24x7 highest tier support package, pay per call support, and prepaid long term support contracts. In addition to selling, licensing, and servicing the basic database, the company will seek revenue from training and documentation.
At the beginning of this study Genezzo had not yet chosen a licensing scheme for the software, but was leaning towards an open and unrestricted license. Based on the results of this study, Genezzo made the decision to adopt a dual-license scheme with the GNU GPL.
