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How open source saved enterprise IT...
- thstart 17y agoOpen source was pushed by hardware companies like IBM, HP to sell more iron and get support contracts on annual basis. The main selling point for open source is the source code you get for insurance. I doubt anyone would read a millions of lines of source code. Open source != free. Recently I researched an open source database. Yes you can download the community edition for free. But the documentation is $80. What is free? Without documentation there is not a way to learn it. To read the source code? Anyone doing it? Now comes the interesting part. The enterprise version support is $10K without phone support, $15K with phone support. And this is an annual subscription. With no documentation you have to get support. Big companies like IBM, HP are making money from support which is on annual basis. It is hard to get so much $'s on annual basis with software alone.