📝AWS can launch your Software as a Service before you do

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Commercial Open-Source Software

• One of the dangers for Commercial OSS companies wanting to offer their product as a service is that AWS could do that earlier

  • They have quite a big advantage being a huge company, and you loose first move advantage.

• This is what happened with Elasticsearch—while they were focusing on developing the software and wanted to build an Elasticsearch Cloud, AWS offered Elasticsearch as a Service first.

• How to overcome (?)

  • Launch it first (e.g., Sentry, GitLab)

  • Form agreements with could providers (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS) to help them integrate and share profits

    • Grafana way—not sure how it worked out

  • Use restrictive licenses—but that undermines Open Source

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• 📝 Open source business models