> If it would save you 1/10th of an engineer per year, it becomes immediately worth.
This ignores second-order effects.
Is it worth limiting yourself to an ecosystem with only users who are ok paying $20k per year, with "open source" development but all development activity done by one company that is trying to make a profit off something unproven, and then tie your core business data to it? Maybe. Not so clear cut though.
This ignores second-order effects.
Is it worth limiting yourself to an ecosystem with only users who are ok paying $20k per year, with "open source" development but all development activity done by one company that is trying to make a profit off something unproven, and then tie your core business data to it? Maybe. Not so clear cut though.