Re (1) that's because they rebuilt one which represents an ongoing cost and tax that makes it harder for them to compete. Your other gross generalizations are m

Re (1) that's because they rebuilt one which represents an ongoing cost and tax that makes it harder for them to compete. Your other gross generalizations are massive distortion of history.. one was acquired by IBM and one was acquired by Rackspace and another remains independent. Re (2) I think elastic's failure to shift into a cloud/saas company is something of an own goal/failure to execute probably because of misplaced sales incentives and sales in logging and security giving a distorted lens into the community but Amazon very clearly strip mined their community as well. Re (3) that's completely untrue... there are about 15 companies competing for postgres and postgres-like mindshare right now and you sure as hell better believe most of them believe the hyperscalers' anti-competitive approach to going to market is a major impediment to their own ability to be stay viable and execute. Re (4) that's because it is not yet popular enough to see ROI from strip mining... but presumably the creators want it to become popular