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by wfuser 2019 days ago
There was even a restriction on the community edition to not release bug fix releases (just one was allowed). So if X.0.0 was released then X.0.1, X.0.2 and so on were not allowed. Without these bug fix releases the community versions started seeing X.1.0, X.2.0 and so on which included additional enhancements/features and weren't merely bug fix releases. As a result, the stability that the community edition of the server was known to provide (previously), no longer existed. This all boiled down to one thing - the sales team couldn't convince customers that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the enterprise edition was a good thing when the community edition was equally good and well maintained, even if by volunteer community members.