Big biz happy to whip out credit cards for pay-as-you-go – Red Hat

Very Interesting

A pay-as-you-go model with no long term contract or commitment might work for some who value their customers. Several cellphone plans are pure pay-as-you-go and they seem to work to treat their customers like human beings. And a surprise, they have very good customer loyalty with much less churn and are very profitable. Never dealt with Red Hat but their support of Fedora and Centos shows they do value their users even the none paying ones.

Slurp could be the big loser because a month-to-month deal means they will need to work at customer loyalty.