In a blog post, AWS explained that since Elastic is no longer making its search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana available as open source, "=""> ...

What Happened: Shares of search software company Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) jumped 17.7% in the mornin session after the company reported a "beat and raise" quarter. Second quarter results beat analysts' ...

True, as Elastic stated, "This change in source code licensing has no impact on the overwhelming majority of our user community who use our default distribution for free. It also has no impact on our ...

Despite the mudslinging over its licensing change from open source, company growth indicates that customers are likely less concerned with source code. Open source isn’t supposed to work like this.

Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services announced Open Distro for Elasticsearch — its own version of Elasticsearch, an open source software project created by publicly-traded software company Elastic.