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Was Elastic's relicensing a debacle from their perspective? Their share price did drop a bit after the announcement, but the company seems to still be quite hea
by bunderbunder 1y ago
Was Elastic's relicensing a debacle from their perspective? Their share price did drop a bit after the announcement, but the company seems to still be quite healthy. For example, everyone I know who's working on search and RAG products right now is doing it with Elasticsearch. The version published by Elastic NV, not the Open Source fork or any other open source alternative.
And perhaps more to the point, their revenue now is about twice what it was in 2020. That's hardly the situation I would expect to see if the move had destroyed people's trust in the company. If anything it seems like it might have had the opposite effect, at least among the demographic that matters most to Elastic as a company: paying customers.
- einrealist 1y agoFor users, it was more of a debacle, with Amazon being one of the biggest companies to rely on stable permissive licensing. Users who could not afford commercial licenses or were unable to accept the new license for legal reasons found themselves in limbo. I am sure that Elastic lost (potential) business to OpenSearch (and AWS). By how much is hard to measure. Sure, they were able to retain enough business. It probably attests to good service and product.
- pnt12 1y agoAnd AWS has agreements with services with similar services, eg MongoDB. Maybe elasticsearch asked for too much money, or AWS didn't want to pay out of principle.