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> And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider? FLOSS is an enabler o
by marcodiego 5y ago
> And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider?
FLOSS is an enabler of almost all SaaS there is today. With regards to support or consultancy, that's is how Canonical, SuSE and (for the most of its existence) RedHat survived. There also minor examples, like Collabora maintaining LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. These are just from the top of my head.
> But, where is the open source popular equivalent to Office365 and Adobe’s software suite - the user facing software?
Equivalent to these... I really fail to provide, but consider many user-facing polished FLOSS like Blender, Krita, Inkscape, Firefox, Chromium, Audacity... Some of them have sustainable market segments, some of them are not as advanced as proprietary options; but most important: some of them are more popular/used them proprietary alternatives and a good enough for most people.