Just playing the devil's advocate, but Lucidworks, the main commercial entity behind Solr, also has numerous paid closed-source offerings: http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-search/
As great as Sense is, it would not be a deal breaker if it was not available publicly. I used Elasticsearch for years before Sense was ever released! There are many other options out there and I would not be surprised if someone open-sourced yet another great tool. -- Ivan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:58 AM, AlexR <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, this is perhaps a too strong of a statement. AFAIK SOLR does not > have any comparable front-end and not many would abandon elastic because > marvel is a commercial product. > > I respect Elastic team trying to monetize its product(s) and do it in a > rather nice way. So I would be perfectly happy paying for Sense. Make Sense > available for purchase as a separate product (perhaps with two > licenses development/personal and corporate) for a reasonable price on > chrome marketplace or elsewhere. I would say many developers would be happy > to pay the price and if a corporation needs it it can license a bunch as > well. It could still be free when bundled inside of Marvel on DEV boxes... > > Tying it to marvel definitely reduce choices and creates inconveniences > hiding this very useful product that can excel on its own merits. I doubt > it will help dramatically in selling marvel (which will hopefully be a > success due to its own value) > > > > On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:43:59 AM UTC-4, jrizzi1 wrote: >> >> What this essentially does is limit a developer's options >> >> I went to my boss, and laid out the plans for implementing ES, and told >> them >> there was no cost, open-source >> >> Now i have to go back and explain we need licensing on our production VM >> if >> we need to use sense on that VM, we don't need marvel, its an internal >> app >> to a department of 100 or less users >> >> If i originally had laid out a plan with costs/licensing agreements, it >> would have had to go to a guidance council for approval of the license, >> department cost approval, and more than likely would have been ruled out >> as >> an option , and gone with SOLR instead >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://elasticsearch-users. >> 115913.n3.nabble.com/Sense-on-github-abandoned-tp4052988p4054272.html >> Sent from the ElasticSearch Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/45ecb6dc-00ed-4e30-a093-a1d2e18a715d%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/45ecb6dc-00ed-4e30-a093-a1d2e18a715d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQCmD9Q%3DBspBQkx7%3D3%3DeakZK_nbr23j_U1DWsH6AHLqr7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
