I provide hosting, support and implementation services for SQL-Ledger (sql-ledger.com) which is also an open source financial application. Although I did not develop sql-ledger, I am developing a number of addons and patches which I am releasing to the community through my website (http://www.ledger123.com/).
I selected the best possible platform (joyent accelerator http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/) for my hosting so that my customers could just forget about issues with security, reliability etc. Added round the clock support to customers and free support to community and result is not bad.
Making enough to feed a full time staff of two and one part time sysadmin. But I had the luxury of taking a mature open source application and build business around it.
Slashdot Mirror
I provide hosting, support and implementation services for SQL-Ledger (sql-ledger.com) which is also an open source financial application. Although I did not develop sql-ledger, I am developing a number of addons and patches which I am releasing to the community through my website (http://www.ledger123.com/). I selected the best possible platform (joyent accelerator http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/) for my hosting so that my customers could just forget about issues with security, reliability etc. Added round the clock support to customers and free support to community and result is not bad. Making enough to feed a full time staff of two and one part time sysadmin. But I had the luxury of taking a mature open source application and build business around it.