I don’t see a pricing page - this clearly looks like a product supported by a company. What’s the plan going forward ? Will it still be aviable in a few years ?
https://stackstorm.com/2020/05/27/extreme-networks-donates-e...
The website is out of date and still refers to the defunct enterprise offering
so on the one hand, thats good as product will always be supported. But, will it get new updates without a company behind it?
- open source means that we can contribute the fixes and improvements we need - not being dependant on a commercial product protects us from events outside our control : what if the company goes under and does not release their code ? What about licensing / pricing changes ? - it follows that in the worse case scenario where the project is completely abandoned, we have the code base and opportunity of maintaining it - others are in the same position, which strengthens the incentive to collaborate on maintenance
That is not to say I’d systematically reject commercial products in favour of FOSS, just that both have different risk profiles that may or may not fit a given situation :)