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by watson 3290 days ago
No we never intended to be profitable at this point in our development. So that was never really a problem. We had actually just secured our next round of funding when Elastic approached us, so money was not an issue. We honestly believe that our chances of doing something great is bigger with Elastic than alone. It's true that we could have continued without joining with Elastic, but we felt it was the right thing to do :)

Personally I'm a huge believer of open source, and Elastic is an open source company. That's one of the reasons why I'm super exited about this. I think this move will benefit everyone :)
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bentlegen 3288 days ago
> Personally I'm a huge believer of open source

I'm curious then why Opbeat itself was never open source?

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simonz05 3290 days ago
Thanks for the thorough and open reply.

Do I understand you right in that the plan is to make Elastic APM open source?

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