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When Free Isn’t Good Enough — Why Companies Buy Infrastructure Tools

A fully managed platform to automate infrastructure on any cloud with HashiCorp products. According to the HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey, infrastructure tool buyers seek support, compliance, and management features — plus a faster ROI.

What’s less understood is how IT teams actually deploy and run open source software, and why many organizations choose to adopt commercial distributions of open source projects.

That’s one reason why most organizations start with open source software and continue using it indefinitely, while some organizations start with open source software and then opt to buy commercial versions at a later date when their needs grow.

Finally, of the 2,900+ respondents to this question in our global survey, 39% said the COVID-19 pandemic led them to increase their use of open source software to more rapidly respond to new business needs.