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What exactly is their business model? Call me naive (after all, I'm just an engineer), but I am shocked that they are managing to sell something that's free.
by Hydraulix989 11y ago
What exactly is their business model?
Call me naive (after all, I'm just an engineer), but I am shocked that they are managing to sell something that's free.
- justinclift 11y agoStability of software, targeted at those who need it (eg enterprise). With a large supporting ecosystem around that.
- oliwarner 11y agoA guarantee that somebody is responsible for the software in some way. Aka "support". It's not [just] tech support, it's providing provenance for things. Enterprise goes mad for that stuff. It also happens to be Microsoft's core business model.
- slgeorge 11y agoA good way to understand RH is to think of the savings they provide to a CTO. With a RH stack you can have storage, core OS, Java and virtualization - so they provide all of the key pieces of architecture an enterprise needs. Fundamentally, the business model is that all their bits work with other enterprise vendors - if you're an enterprise CTO then you have SAP, and Oracle and Windows ... so interoperability is key. They're a really strong engineering outfit that's been consistent in pushing FOSS forward! But as importantly, they understand the challenges Fortune 500 customers have - and those aren't free!