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This. Elastic produced a product that is popular because it's open source. (The closed source version of ES is called Splunk or DataDog.) Now they are pissed of

This. Elastic produced a product that is popular because it's open source. (The closed source version of ES is called Splunk or DataDog.) Now they are pissed off that they can't profit from its popularity. I feel their sadness, but I don't think Amazon is the problem. Even before Amazon many non-Elastic hosted ES offers appeared (logz.io ?). I would hate to be in their shoes, but it brings a valuable lesson to future entrepreneurs: Do fill the "unfair advantage" box in your business canvas.

viraptor 6y ago
> The closed source version of ES is called Splunk or DataDog. No, these are services which probably use some kind of search/indexing service in their implementation. They don't provide a database interface. The closed alternative would be something like Algolia or Azure Search.
neop1x 6y ago
But what if this openness is the thing made them more popular than closed solutions like Splunk?