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Can someone explain the business model of suse and redhat ? Is it selling open source software ? How can that be worth billions ? How do you do practically ? Di
by z3t4 8y ago
Can someone explain the business model of suse and redhat ? Is it selling open source software ? How can that be worth billions ? How do you do practically ? Direct sales to enterprise !? Is there a lot of configuration and extra feature implementation, or does most enterprise run "vanilla" ? How do you brak into this market ?
- NullPrefix 8y agoSelling support
- pferde 8y agoExpensive support contracts, and in case of SUSE, some add-on software channels that come with the contracts (SLES for SAP, High Availability, Containers, etc.) being locked away behind paywall.
- marenkay 8y agoBusiness models of all big software companies are identical and have not changed in decades: You buy licenses, renew them yearly. With various levels of premium support to select from.
- dmacvicar 8y agoSubscriptions, not licenses. Subscriptions give you access to different level of support, and access to updates.