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| Wasn't the idea of software by subscription supposed to give customers the
| freedom to pull the plug at any time? In theory, yes, but then the customer
| must also factor in the cost of migrating to a competing product. In the
| case of open source offerings like Linux, the moving from Red to SuSE or
| vice versa might be nominal. But moving from MySQL to Ingres or Postgres
| might be another matter altogether.
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| Nonetheless, subscriptions for JBoss, MySQL, or Red Hat subscriptions
| are typically lower licenses for WebSphere or WebLogic, Oracle, or
| Windows, respectively.
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