alt Hacker NewsI am going to give a guess on this one. I work for a large enterprise and have been involved with evaluating different OSS solutions.
One of the things that tends to come up is support. Now a small OSS startup with no funding and maybe even no way to pay them gets an automatic no in most cases.
My guess is that it is less about VC money and more about “I know I will have someone to call as long as I am willing to pay” kind of thing. VC money tells the company someone else is confident enough about this so I can be too.
Just my non-expert opinion.
Yea, that’s pretty much what I meant as well. Knowing the project is backed by a significant amount of money makes it a lot easier to rationalize using the product within your stack for the reasons you mentioned. This is usually more spreadsheet-acrobatics than actual reasoning (as is so often the case in enterprise) however, so YMMV for the actual outcome.