AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by jiofih on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:44AM (#25869696)

Elastic is a public company worth 15B dollars now. Not the underdog.

> at what threshold should someone ... stop caring

You’re not caring about OSS, but about keeping your turf and “ownership” of a product that is not yours. There really is no question here that Elastic is the one doing the “corporation” move and not the other way around.

> to undermine the business that was setup to sustain it

Successful OSS don’t need one business to sustain them, they rely on the combined efforts of their users - including Amazon. They have no reason to undermine a project that makes them money.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by youngtaff on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:28AM (#25869975)

They're an underdog when compared to Amazon…

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by jiofih on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:42AM (#25871188)

If you’re simply thinking of size, consider Amazon is a 500x more diversified business. I doubt they pull anywhere near as much revenue as Elastic does (half a billion/year) from their Elasticsearch hosting alone. Apples and oranges.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by youngtaff on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:24AM (#25881228)

I was thinking in terms of AWS, which while more diversified has lock-in, and someone who's already using AWS is probably never going to use ES own cloud hosting

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by jiofih on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:00PM (#25898919)

Elastic products run on AWS

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