From my limited existence, one of my older employers paid Red Hat a lot of money for a fairly limited/short engagement with 1-2 of their software engineers and

From my limited existence, one of my older employers paid Red Hat a lot of money for a fairly limited/short engagement with 1-2 of their software engineers and 1 of their solutions engineers, and then paid tens of thousands per year for I think 2 production support contracts for their software for years after. At the same time, I could see how they could have gotten pinched recently if they were unwilling to pay more to retain talent and are now getting squeezed from the other side by companies moving away from their products to reduce costs.