There could be an open source alternative to our software, yet it will be much harder to have an economically competitive open source alternative to systems or

There could be an open source alternative to our software, yet it will be much harder to have an economically competitive open source alternative to systems or workflows. Amazon's Open Search Service, for instance, is just a control plane on top of Open Search (and Elasticsearch some time ago), yet so many companies flock to the service because they simply do not want to be bothered with manning a search service.