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The model of "freemium" OSS of paid and community editions is pretty popular: Zimbra, JBoss, Postgres, MySQL, etc. Ubuntu is special because there's only one v
by burntrelish1273 9y ago
The model of "freemium" OSS of paid and community editions is pretty popular: Zimbra, JBoss, Postgres, MySQL, etc.
Ubuntu is special because there's only one version for community and commercial, which can have paid support, whereas RHEL/CentOS is kind of a hack-around that they might as well make completely free except for the commercial packages (RPMs).
- anarazel 9y agoHow's Postgres a freemium project? There are commercial forks, but they're not done by the people running the .org project, and they're not particularly popular in comparison.
- burntrelish1273 9y agoEvery FOSS project is freemium when vendors offer support. Furthermore, your assumption that populist obscurity is some how a negative is FUD and ignorant of Postgres' historical obscurity until recent years. EDB is the largest commercial vendor with EDB Postgres Plus being a compatible, cheaper Oracle DBMS replacement. Furthermore, they contribute upstream all the time. https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/new-postgresql-tools-are-latest-edb%E2%80%99s-community-contributions https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/new-postgresql-tools-are-l...