Whether your organization is looking to build a business around open source technology or looking to leverage open source solutions internally, Red Hat's subscription business model is worth consideration as a effective way for organizations to deploy and manage open source technology. Under this model, a customer purchases a subscription entitling the customer to receive technical support and software maintenance for Red Hat's open source technologies during the term of the subscription. Red Hat views the subscription model as the ideal complement to the rapid innovation afforded by the open source development model.