Re: FREE hosting platforms with PostgreSQL, Java SDK, Tomcat, ecc.?

It is not my intention to continue this discussion within this mailing list,
so please stop to reply or reply just to me. Otherwise I have to answer
again to the community and I don't want to do it. :-)

Dear Chris, thank you. I will answer to you in the following.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> I hope I am not feeding a troll here.
>
> The economic model behind PostgreSQL is a very good one. Here is my
> understanding of it. Various people in the community cooperate but
> they also sell products (EnterpriseDB, Green Plum) based on the
> codebase along with their proprietary enhancements. Others sell
> services including hosting and consulting. In general anyone who does
> not share everything practical ends up paying for it later in terms of
> internal maintenance overhead. Everyone benefits.
>

> The wonderful thing about open source software is that every one of us
> owns the means of production not in a collective or a government but
> individually. I can take PostgreSQL and make a living off it. You
> can take my program that runs on it (LedgerSMB) and make a living off
> it. We can take these pieces of software and use them to provide
> services to others. The barrier to getting into business for yourself
> is very low.
>

It's impossible that everyone benefits proportionally to his own effort of
development. In this sense the model is not "right". But this is the rule of
the open source model and it is OK because the rule is accepted by all the
developers.
>
>
> In my view, if you don't want to pay for hosting and you need all
> these features, you probably don't really need hosting. The only way
> you will get hosting is if you convince someone that taking you on
> benefits them more than the costs (either by paying them or making the
> case that it's a good business idea to take you on), or ---- the
> wonderful thing about free and unfettered access to the means of
> production --- you can set up your own system with all these
> technologies. That's the free hosting solution that might work best
> for you.
>

Simply I don't know how the business works for the hosting platforms. Or
better, now I have understood it. :-) For this reason I asked my question. I
supposed that it was a business similar to the one existing for "File
Hosting".

Thank you for your support. :-)

Fernando

> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
>