I think a fork/distro of ES was bound to happen. As a heavy ES user, I've looked into getting a license to access the so-called X-Pack features, most of which

I think a fork/distro of ES was bound to happen. As a heavy ES user, I've looked into getting a license to access the so-called X-Pack features, most of which are very basic and should belong in the OSS distribution anyways. Lots of those features are now available as plugins, but until now there's been no overall solution for getting the missing features. After an almost two hour long phone call, we kind of got the pricing in a roundabout way from the salesperson; tens of thousands of dollars per year for a small cluster. We REALLY wanted to get this, which is why we dealt with the sales process, but there was just no way to justify that to our management.