Open Source vs. Closed Source Support | Linux Today

Open Source vs. Closed Source Support

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 2, 2007

“The main factors for commercial support per my experience
were:

  • “Installation – Probably the number one factor in any support
    organization I worked in whether it was consumer Internet, web
    hosting, or enterprise application servers. In the case of the app
    server for Linux the biggest problem was dependency resolution
    since keeping software up-to-date for the fast changing Linux
    distributions was tough. Often users customized their install often
    failing to install software needed to compile or install software
    on their particular brand of Linux…:


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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