[sulam]

Completely disagree. Services models seem to very much limit what companies like this can achieve. It also creates a perverse incentive for the company to make a product that needs service contracts to manage. They tend to produce more closed-source "addons" as well.

[nickpsecurity]

Exactly. Empirical research I saw showed that most companies in that market don't do so well in either profits or longevity. The majority of them we see here also intend to sell out.