It's also potentially a good way to fund high-security implementations. Get the protocols, data formats, and so on that you cant easily change right ahead of time. Design rest for easy modification. Rapidly build product with just enough assurance. Focus on sales, support, and integration contracts. Eventually shift to rewriting the thing a bit at a time for high security/QA with any reusable components dual-licensed. If enough money comes in, pay hardware team to put together some secure, RISC-V servers on top of that.