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by marcinzm 2779 days ago
Simple, the cost of an outage is less than the cost of a support contract. Very few things are really mission critical as in they can never go down. Rather they simply have a cost to going down and you can choose to pay that one way or another.
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And it's not like having a support contract precludes you from downtime.