&quot;We&#x27;re not going anywhere.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d like another answer like. &quot;We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale&quot;. If Parse had an opersource version to begin with, it would have been much much more successful and people would have been less worried about building on a third party platform.<p>If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.<p>&gt; Firebase is very complementary to Google&#x27;s other product offerings<p>Google is a big org. Tomorrow some upper executive you don&#x27;t even know might decide your product doesn&#x27;t add value anymore. You know that.