> ... "customers eventually drop support as their infrastructures mature and they look to reduce operating costs" This is part of the game called software. In

> ... "customers eventually drop support as their infrastructures mature and they look to reduce operating costs" This is part of the game called software. In some worlds this is actually the goal; that the software works so well and is so reliable that your customers eventually don't all need to keep paying you. So you find new customers and add new, never advertised before features and enterprise clients with SLA support contracts, etc. It's very understandable that it's hard to monetize, but giving people the impression clustering was going to be included long term and taking it away is not going to score you points. Furthermore you want to get all the folks doing a startup on a budget hearing a story that works for them. Most ( especially new or young ) cofounder programmer types rarely plan to not need clustering, even if the reality is most won't need or use it. Saying this is for the big kids only is a turn off at this point in the influx story. Wish you the best of luck