Free to Fee

January 10th, 2008

Since I’ve been with JBoss, we’ve been making a move towards “the Fedora model” in terms of the divide between the open-source community projects and the “official” bits you can buy support against. Once we introduced our Platforms and Frameworks product configurations, it became slightly less clear what was what. Unlike Fedora, when tends to aggregate a lot of things from a lot of projects, the JBoss community projects are the primary upstream source for JBoss commercial support offerings.

Working with Jon Atkins and Shaun Connolly who handle the .com side of the house, we’ve worked up some statements to help try to clarify it all. Additionally, James Cobb whipped up a pretty intuitive diagram demonstrating the way the open-source community is cherry-picked and how the rough edges are sanded off to create the supported bits.

Org and Enterprise

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One Response to “Free to Fee”

  1. 1 Karsten Wade
    January 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    This is the phat, phat bomb. Loving the diagram as much as I love the diagram showing how JBoss.org projects fit together:

    http://labs.jboss.com/projects/

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