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One data point: What we use our open source commercial support contracts for, and what we'd love to have offered by more open source packages, is 24x7 emergenc
by modoc 11y ago
One data point: What we use our open source commercial support contracts for, and what we'd love to have offered by more open source packages, is 24x7 emergency support and break-fix diagnostics and patches.
When a big website running on JBoss starts falling over at 2 AM, and initial triage points to JBoss, being able to get a Redhat engineer involved immediately and get a custom hotfix created if needed, is worth the money we pay.
The problem with this model for a lot of the smaller open source projects is they aren't setup or staffed to be able to provide effective 24x7x365 support.