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There are a bunch of smaller companies that open source a community edition and upsell to SaaS. Confluent and elasticsearch are the first that come to mind

• detaro 5y ago
  It's telling that one of your examples is one that took the step to relicense their product under a not-open-source license.
  • mountainriver 5y ago
    Take a look at the CNCF, all of those products are open source and many of them are lucrative. Elasticsearch is still open source they just wanted to buck companies like Amazon from taking advantage of them, which is fine by me
    • detaro 5y ago
      Elastic search is not open source anymore. It's not under an open source license. I'm all for open source products (I both work on and make large use of such products), but this "just open source it, you can make a business out of it anyways!" without further constraints is IMHO misguided. Open-source business models are challenging, and that needs to be recognized.