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Yes. This is one of the main ways to make money. Another way is being purely service-based like RedHat.
by artagnon 17y ago
Yes. This is one of the main ways to make money. Another way is being purely service-based like RedHat.
- tptacek 17y agoRed Hat also starts out in some of the toughest software segments: operating systems and J2EE stacks. That's a side effect of when they were founded and the scale they are now forced to operate at. There are plenty of software businesses that make money on services that are easier to sell and operate than entire operating systems (for which "service" is a fuzzy concept anyways). For instance: lots of security products require monitoring; in fact, lots of security products deliberately require lots of hands-on monitoring, because that drives services dollars. Restating, point being, Red Hat may not be a particularly great example.