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You mention developing a PaaS product, then you go on to describe a business model based around professional services (PS). By definition, they contradict each

• danellis 14y ago
  Right, so in the case of releasing the product as open source, the product is not the business, it's something to base a PS business around. I see this as something similar to, say, 10gen with MongoDB. By 'service' in this case I'm really talking about internal services that an IT department provides to developers, rather than something hosted by a third-party, and I use the term because it's analogous functionality. By having a product that you can run yourself, you can maintain a coherent system that works across the whole development runway, reducing deployment failures that are caused by mis-matched environments. (This is very much came from an itch that needed to be scratched.) Because it's something for an in-house IT department to provide, just as they would provide code repository hosting and bug tracking, there would likely be a need for training, for consulting, and for integration with existing business systems.