A little OT but how does bitnami make money? They don't seem to charge AMIs atleast. So, I guess they charge AWS/GCE for providing 1-click images? Or are they a consulting company (if so, why choose them over the original app authors)? Or both?
Bitnami co-founder here. Most of what we produce is open source and we aim to make money in ways that are useful to companies but not limit or handicap our offering and alienate people. For example, we offer optional backup and monitoring services through Bitnami Cloud Hosting (https://bitnami.com/cloud/hosting) and we also have commercial services for ISVs that want to package their commercial apps through our platform. We also provide support for infrastructure providers (i.e. cloud vendors) that want the applications integrated with their platforms in specific ways
A little OT but how does bitnami make money? They don't seem to charge AMIs atleast. So, I guess they charge AWS/GCE for providing 1-click images? Or are they a consulting company (if so, why choose them over the original app authors)? Or both?