OpenLogic just announced that it had a good 2007. The company tripled its number of customers, and now counts three of the Fortune 10 as companies, with many more in the Fortune 500. Good for them.
What is perhaps less appealing about the company's success is that it may be achieving its success at the expense of the projects that make it possible in the first place. Two of its top-five projects (in a consolidated library of 380 total projects) - JBoss and Hibernate - are developed by Red Hat. Yet the company crows about the fact that vendors like Red Hat won't get paid under its model:
OpenLogic allows companies to consolidate their open source provisioning, governance and support through a single vendor [Read: OpenLogic]. Customers have embraced this model by significantly expanding their relationship with OpenLogic.
Let's follow this to its natural conclusion. The more successful OpenLogic becomes, the more it puts its "feeder" open-source projects and companies out of business. With friends like these....
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