From a comment on the Elastic post earlier today: "We build something on Elastic - and trying to work with them to get licensing was at best a major PITA. In ~

From a comment on the Elastic post earlier today: "We build something on Elastic - and trying to work with them to get licensing was at best a major PITA. In ~2017 Elastic decided they wanted to go Enterprise Only. They started to charge $100k for x-pack, though one could get a dev license for $50K. We quickly built a SQL parser for Elastic, an alerting engine, some other bits. These are all bits that just went poof yesterday when Amazon released opendistro - and I couldn't be happier. Sure we'll have to slice out a bunch of code, but at the end of the day it didn't have value to our core business." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370085 The trouble is, once an open source company puts essential stuff under a shared source license, and calls it open source, you don't know if that's all they're going to do, or if they're going to keep charging more, or putting more essential stuff under a non open source license. The simplicity that drew people into using the open source product is gone, and there's an uncertain future. It's hard to find an open core product that has only enterprise features in its enterprise offering. For instance, in Greylog2, views and a user audit log would be useful to pretty much anyone. [1] And people would probably be happy to implement and contribute it themselves. And the company wouldn't merge it in because it competes with their enterprise offering. With nginx, a feature whose usefulness is not limited to enterprise that is only in nginx plus is dynamic reconfiguration, which can be used to implement rolling restarts. [2] [1]: https://www.graylog.org/products/open-source-vs-enterprise https://www.graylog.org/products/open-source-vs-enterprise [2]: https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-reconfiguration-with-nginx-plus/ https://www.nginx.com/blog/dynamic-reconfiguration-with-ngin...