> The first two aren't really safe - look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
> where you have a free, code-identical offering (CentOS) and somebody
> else offering support at half of Red Hat's price (Oracle).
Ask Oracle how the sales are doing on that front.
> Apart from
> that, support doesn't seem to be a great way to make money for open-
> source companies, and it kinda sucks business-wise (revenue is a
> multiple of your bodies,
Not true !
> so it's restricted profit-wise and doesn't
> scale easily up and down).
> I So that only leaves you with closed-
> source software, and that sounded like the example given in the
> podcast (doing a Solaris upgrade without much downtime through
> software vs. paying an admin to do that). Now Sun is doing this right
> now in the MySQL business where they have tuning software just for
> their enterprise customers, but they went back and forth on this a
> number of times. Then you're essentially back in tradition software
> business - people pay you for your closed stuff and get the OSS as an
> "extra".
>
> Karsten
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