Re:Elementary OS is imploding
by nix23 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:49AM
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Suse, EnterpriseDB, Canonical, Hashicorp and and and...but a Linux-distro for the desktop with the sustainability of two "fighting" friends......
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Re:Elementary OS is imploding
by dwohnitmok on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:58AM
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IIRC EnterpriseDB mainly makes it money from paid hosting and I think Hashicorp makes its money from a combo of paid hosting and open core (i.e. it has other proprietary tools and add-ons). SUSE is a good example, but I'm not as sure about Canonical. Wasn't it the case that Canonical is actually operating at a loss and has been for a while? Maybe that's changed?
Canonical had a $20 million operating profit in 2020.
Re:Elementary OS is imploding
by dwohnitmok on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:18PM
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Oh interesting. But digging into that it looks like it's coming from adding open core and previous to that they were losing money? (Ubuntu Pro + Ubuntu Advantage providing auxiliary proprietary? tools)
But then you can argue that RedHat made also money with Openshift no?
>EnterpriseDB mainly makes it money from paid hosting
Not sure if that's true.
Re:Elementary OS is imploding
by dwohnitmok on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:19PM
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> But then you can argue that RedHat made also money with Openshift no?
Yeah but RedHat's (and I guess SUSE?) miracle is that they were still very profitable before Openshift.
> Not sure if that's true.
Well hopefully someone from EnterpriseDB can chime in!