If the licensing model asks for companies to pay for the "Enterprise" features which are still OSS, it would resolve this problem for me at least (not sure about the OP).
In general, its been my experience that the closed source enterprise only crap that most companies push for is exactly that: crap. I suspect its because those features are treated as a business expense, and thus built to keep costs low. Almost every time those features are underwhelming and buggy.
If its OSS, at least I can contribute a patch; if the thing is popular, likely someone else has already fixed it.
Enterprise support is a fucking joke; they will delay delay and delay. If you push hard enough, they say "its on the roadmap" without giving any gurantee of when it will be fixed. The only time Enterprise support has really worked well is in my org that got the best support package for GCP. GCP's support for urgent issues and product feature requests has been somewhat reliable and predictable. Much more than literally any other enterprise (I'm looking at you Okta).
- we had requested some way of being able to remove IAM permissions that went stale. GCP introduced a “recommendations” feature that indicates which IAM roles have been unused for a long time and can safely be removed.
- we requested a way to prohibit the provision of ILBs on shared VPC subnets without explicit grants; GCP introduced a role for that
- we had issues with the number of compute instances being too high on our VPC and reaching limits because of the number of vpc peerings. In the past, every GKE cluster created a new peering. We have a bunch of GKE clusters, and as we added more the Max number of instances we could provision was reduced significantly. GCP introduced and fast tracked a feature that enabled all GKE clusters to use a single peering rather than create a peer per GKE cluster.
There’s a bunch more. But on this front I have been a happy customer.
In general, its been my experience that the closed source enterprise only crap that most companies push for is exactly that: crap. I suspect its because those features are treated as a business expense, and thus built to keep costs low. Almost every time those features are underwhelming and buggy. If its OSS, at least I can contribute a patch; if the thing is popular, likely someone else has already fixed it.
Enterprise support is a fucking joke; they will delay delay and delay. If you push hard enough, they say "its on the roadmap" without giving any gurantee of when it will be fixed. The only time Enterprise support has really worked well is in my org that got the best support package for GCP. GCP's support for urgent issues and product feature requests has been somewhat reliable and predictable. Much more than literally any other enterprise (I'm looking at you Okta).