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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by anticristi on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:49PM (#25837058)
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.

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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by viraptor on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:32PM (#25839829)
> 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.

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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by neop1x on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:28AM (#25844722)
But what if this openness is the thing made them more popular than closed solutions like Splunk?
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