Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Who gets credit for open source success? Like so many winning projects, Weaveworks’ Cortex is the result of a long and winding chain of open source inspiration and innovation Credit: Dreamstime Over 2000 years ago the Roman historian Tacitus observed that “Victory is claimed by all”—or, as some translations put it, “Success has many fathers.” Open source is similar. For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently worked with Grafana Labs to build and launch a managed Prometheus service—two companies joining together to deliver the open source monitoring software as a cloud service. Sounds simple, right?