The entire IT world is turning towards using Free Software, nowadays.
One of the major issues in implementing the FOSS Solutions in the corporates is
Technical Support for the Free Open Source software.
Though the Free Software Communities are very active in providing free
support in mailing lists,
IRC channels, Public forums etc, the organizations can not wait till
someone answers in these channels
when some critical issue happens.
On those critical situations, they need some helping hand, some
shoulder to fall on.
even they are ready to pay for the commercial support for Free Software.
Most companies now start to provide commercial support for Free Software.
Example:
CollabNet [ http://collab.net ] - Apache Subversion, Git
Redhat [ http://redhat.com ] - Redhat Linux
Canonical [http://www.canonical.com] - Ubuntu Linux
Novell [https://www.suse.com/ ]- Suse
PostgreSQL - EnterpriseDB Corporation (http://www.enterprisedb.com)
It is a good thing to see the list is growing and more companies
choose the support as their way of making money with Free Open Source
Software.
CollabNet, which is providing Support for Subversion from its early
days, now started to support Git too.
How does CollabNet support git?
CollabNet has its own ALM product called TeamForge
[http://www.collab.net/products/teamforge] . It can have git as a part
of its version control system, which provides easy UI to manage
repositories and provide access control.
Apart from that customers can buy only GIT support where they can get
the open source git from their repositories and get support from
CollabNet.
CollabNet has a expert team on git and it pays for developers who
contribute for Git. With the experts in Git, CollabNet provides
support via email, phone and remote session.
See here the plans.
http://www.collabnet.com/support/support-programs#git
CollabNet is already providing same support for Subversion where it
pays for Subversion developers and provides Commercial Support and
free support via its forums.
http://forums.open.collab.net/
Read the git blogs here: http://blogs.collab.net/git where the experts
from CollabNet share their experience in Git.
It is providing hosted solution for Git and Subversion too. Check here
http://www.cloudforge.com/
Its a great opportunity for organizations to implement git with the
support from CollabNet.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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