You really aren't replying to the person who actually tried to make money in open source and related some actual experience of why it didn't work. Businesses a

You really aren't replying to the person who actually tried to make money in open source and related some actual experience of why it didn't work. Businesses actually don't give two sh*ts about being "tightly coupled" with a proprietary product. That's a sysadmin thing. It makes sense to the "us" of the world, but businesses don't care. Look at any area or field where billions or trillions of dollars worth of transactions still go through systems running on IBM iSeries, or mainframes. It's just the cost of doing business.