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If this costed roughly a million dollars, then yes. Especially if you're locked in like with a DB. I use nginx because even though it has this mode it would be easy to replace with something else.
Being burned before,I will never use an OS infrastructure project that has enterprise features you need to pay for. They always try to move you to paid and make the OSS version unpleasant to use over time as soon as the bean counters take over to milk you
"For customers with large production deployments, we also offer an enterprise edition that comes with additional functionality"
They offer an enterprise paid version with more functionality.
"for customers with large production deployments, we also offer an enterprise edition that comes with additional functionality"
If this is a trend I guess HP wishes it would never have so readily worked with the NSA bugging servers.