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The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have
by dnsworks 17y ago
The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have really made it in a big way.
- antirez 17y agoMaybe this will work very well. At least I hope so, congrats to this guys, they deserve this success.
- russss 17y agoCloudera (http://cloudera.com/ http://cloudera.com/) is doing pretty well. Canonical too, although it's not clear if they're actually making any money. And there are scores of other, smaller companies which are doing well.
- mallipeddi 17y agoI'm wondering how you know Cloudera is doing well? I noticed you work for Smarkets now (and Last.fm before). I'm just curious to know how much money can you realistically expect to make for a pure consulting business like Cloudera.
- sadiq 17y agoJBoss is another one that comes to mind.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoMemcached?
- va_coder 17y agoIBM and Oracle make a lot of money providing services around products that are <i>mostly</i> open source.