> What's wrong with paid hosting? Oh nothing wrong. I'm just on a fact-finding mission on seeing whether any other companies have successfully followed the con

> What's wrong with paid hosting? Oh nothing wrong. I'm just on a fact-finding mission on seeing whether any other companies have successfully followed the consulting/support contract model vs paid hosting or open core (because this has rather significant repercussions on what kind of products lend themselves well to a given business model, e.g. a desktop app is not going to work well for paid hosting).