Well said, Mike. I can't think of anything else to add.
Justin On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Michael André Pearce < michael.andre.pea...@me.com> wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > Rather than answer this for a specific vendor as Apache spaces are meant > to be vendor neutral e.g. shouldn't be pushing /selling their products. You > will find though on activemq site a list of known vendors providing such > services. > > This is the same as probably most Apache open source products where > commercial vendors sell support. Good other examples are the Apache Hadoop > projects with Hadoop vendors, Apache Kafka and Apache Ignite all having > vendors backing those projects. > > In general the benefits of Apache Open Source is that you can use the > product un-restricted and at any scale. > Like wise most Apache projects are very active with most critical issues > being patched quite quickly. > > User forums are great places to ask questions or discuss issues, where > other users or the devs on the projects help each other. > > You of course can always fork and self patch as well. Some large companies > go this route as well as the other end of the scale with tech start ups. > > The benefits of vendors that provide support for open source project, is > that typically they will have committers on the project or developers who > are at least very active, this means they know the code and in cases of > critical issue obviously you have them to call upon with commercial SLAs. > > Like wise typically vendors will fork the project and bundle a project > with some additional extras or bundle a couple of projects together as a > single product package. > > Another part is obviously they tend to provide long term support for > particular versions, if required. > > To understand further what specific vendors offer obviously it's best to > visit their websites or contact them direct. > > Cheers > Mike > > > > > > On 24 Aug 2017, at 21:46, Oliver B. Fischer <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > my colleagues and I are going to build a new distributed system based on > Apache Artemis. > > > > Now we have to answer the question to ourselves if we should go for > JBoss AMQ with support contract or should we use Apache Artemis directly. > > > > Is there a good reason to choose JBoss AMQ? > > > > Would be nice to have your opinions on this. > > > > Best, > > > > Oliver > > > > > > -- > > N Oliver B. Fischer > > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > > P +49 30 44793251 > > M +49 178 7903538 > > E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > > S oliver.b.fischer > > J oliver.b.fisc...@jabber.org > > X http://xing.to/obf > > >
