Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
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Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
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Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#2What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#3all the vcs who have poured money into hortonworks and elasticsearch are the greatest contributers to open-source - and they don't even know it.
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#4What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#5What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
I don't think the "open core" model is in their best interests. Look at a company like Zenoss, where their OSS version is their biggest competitor. It doesn't make sense for ES to do that.
Now marvel[1] is where they've started monetizing and I'm sure they make a good bit of money from "professional services" teaching companies how to deploy ES at scale. Hopefully they pull it off, as the world needs a good competitor to splunk. ES has the backend tech, but kibana has a loooooong way before it rivals the interface for searching splunk. Here's to hoping!
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#6What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
What would be so bad about an enterprise edition? Many companies require extra support and would pay for the enterprise edition and wouldn't even consider the product without this option.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#7What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
ElasticSearch is a sufficiently complex system that can be implemented in a ton of different ways to solve a ton of different problems. I'm sure there are more than enough consulting gigs floating around for them make a good bit of money both on actual consulting and selling additional software packages.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#8We love Elasticsearch. It's fast and accurate for huge amounts of data, super easy to scale, and incredibly easy to get started. That cash can only make the product better. Good for them!
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#9If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses:
http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#10If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses: http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
I also recommend the JBoss Business Case Study: "Lessons from Leaders: How JBoss did it" [1]
[1] http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/lessons-from-leaders/jboss-e...