"Building a commercial company dependant on a volunteer community is tough to say the least. Of course RedHat developed their own flavor of Linux, but they did it by leveraging an existing enormous community of developers who were at their wits end with Microsoft. In their case the peasants (the developer community) were coming over the hills with pitch forks ready to attack Microsoft, and the smart people at RedHat were able to leverage the movement. Good for RedHat. There's no such movement in network management." -- Steve Goodman, February 2008