“One of the primary reasons companies buy Red Hat and JBoss is
for the network(s): Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network.
These networks basically take a lot of the administrative overhead
(and deployment risk) out of working with open source operating
systems and middleware.“Could you go build, deploy, and update Red Hat Linux or JBoss
middleware without them? Sure. Many do. But these network products
make it easy, and ‘easy’ is something for which lots of enterprises
are happy to pay…”