On: AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

[dodobirdlord]

If I recall correctly, the creator, chief maintainers, and primary contributors to Lucene are also at Elastic. The ElasticSearch/Lucene distinction is one primarily brought up by AWS advocates to muddy the waters.

[ignoramous → dodobirdlord]

The lead developer on Lucene, Mike McCandless, has long been at A9, an Amazon subsidiary in Palo Alto.

[greatpatton → dodobirdlord]

Doug Cutting is at Cloudera.