- The lower-level the category the more customers want support on it. - The more you can commoditize the layers below you, the more the market likes it. Red Ha

- The lower-level the category the more customers want support on it. - The more you can commoditize the layers below you, the more the market likes it. Red Hat does this for servers. - The lower-level the category the more the market actually “wants” it standardized in order to minimize entropy. This is why low-level infrastructure categories become natural monopolies or oligopolies. source: https://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in-open-source-thoughts-on-the-hortonworks-s-1/ https://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in...