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Offering a web based support service is really plain silly.

If your a web firm it is natural to offer tech support and maintence at a monthly cost.

But unless somoene in NY Times knows what type of system their using, and somehow know a little bit about web 2.0, and some of the leaders in it, would they hear or even think of the name Automatic.

I am sorry Marshall had to disagree with you on that point.

And the fact this company is making massive amounts of money on the efforts of people like you and me that help develop small parts of wordpress. As well as the rest of the PHP community, is complete blashpemy.

Not to say Web Programmers should not charge to install Wordpress, configure it and provide training. This is our forte’.

But to think that the lead developers of Wordpress suddenly found a way to make money off their software is crazy.

I do agree it may be interesting to have a discussion with the birth founders of Wordpress. But I wouldn’t pay 5,000 per year.

Try emailing the guys at 2advanced.com , they always respond! Instead of making themselves set apart from the crowd, they should immerse themselves, and want to be sought out. Very much like Mike is doing here with Tech Crunch. He isn’t telling you to pay him to hear his thoughts. Even so, the amount of power in each post you guys make is unmistakable.

They did do the inital development. Correct.But without immense community support, plugin creation from the community for wordpress, and immense changes for WP 2.0, there will be no wordpress.

These guys arent gods.

  Automattic the developers behind wordpress announced a new service called Automatic Support Network. It’s intended help large organizations and enterprise users leverage WordPress and the community around it.
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It does require the developers have a seperate source of income for a while… I mean, look how long WordPress has been out.

Also, your real competitive advantage becomes the “we built the damn thing” factor.

In the long run (few months), others will master your software and offer good enough or better support. One option is to keep certain features for paying customers, as sugarcrm has done… but that isn’t how WordPress is positioned to be right now.

Let’s see how it plays out.

Automattic, the company that has created WordPress which powers many of the weblogs in the blogosphere today, has just launched a level of enterprise called the Automattic Support Network. According to a recent blog post on Toni Schneider’s blog the…