Hm, your tone is a bit puzzling. Chilisoft ASP was mentioned in the original article as a "Boom. Done." solution. By all accounts I've seen, it was a complete implementation of ASP. ASP was tiny. There were six objects: Request, Response, Server, Application, Session, and Error. Not a lot of room for undetected edge cases, and if there are, likely not harder to work around than the ones in your own porting library.
Anyway the point is, if you are selling to "enterprise" especially at that time, open-source is a scary, uncertain proposition. Enterprise buyers want vendors with phone numbers and help desks and support agreements and maintenance plans. Your sales guy just says, "Sure, unix, fine, no problem" and bundles Chilisoft into the quote.
Ayup. "Boom. Done." It just exploded, and your company is now done.
There is no such thing as "Boom. Done." when I have to answer the call when it goes "Boom." Enterprise customers won't allow me to say "Call Chilisoft"--they will yell at ME to fix things. If I can't fix it, I lose the customer.
If it was so easy and small, why doesn't there seem to be an open source version of it? If it was so easy and small, why did Chilisoft sell for almost $100 million?
Open-source wasn't scary at all to enterprise vendors as they didn't even know it was there if the software used a BSD-like license. Only the GPL causes enterprise legal panic like syphilis in a whorehouse.
Anyway the point is, if you are selling to "enterprise" especially at that time, open-source is a scary, uncertain proposition. Enterprise buyers want vendors with phone numbers and help desks and support agreements and maintenance plans. Your sales guy just says, "Sure, unix, fine, no problem" and bundles Chilisoft into the quote.