Companies like IBM, RedHat, SuSE, etc. all provide paid support for projects like httpd. I believe IBM has people who are committers on the project. Others like RH and SuSE have experts in httpd who are fully capable of submitting patches back to the project.
Doing a cursory search, it looks like all the major Linux distros that have support arms provide support. It also looks like the major IT outsourcing groups say they support it as well (IBM Global Services, HP/EDS, Accenture, etc). You also have to remember that httpd is an extremely mature project at this point with very a huge customer base and a very well tested binary. It's probably very safe to support as there are very few situations that it hasn't been through. -Nick On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 1/4/14 4:09 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >> In fact, on my to do list is to try to get permission from Adobe to do > >>that sort of thing. > >Why would Adode need to give permission? Are you talking about yourself > >only or in general, it wasn't clear to me from the context. > Me personally. > > > > >Perhaps we can make up a short list of people who are able to offer > >support like that? It would need to be external right as your would want > >it to be seen that Apache endorses those people in anyway. > > > >Also perhaps add to the Flex FAQ. eg Q: "Does Apache Flex offer any paid > >support contracts?" A: "No, but several committers, PMC members and > >companies are able to provide those services. <link>" > Maybe. It isn't clear a big company will feel better if there is a list > of folks because you don't really know their availability, training, etc. > I've been wondering how HTTPD can be installed in so many places and how > support works for that, but haven't had time to research it. Maybe there > is an established company that would be willing to build a business around > it. > > -Alex > >
