If you read this site you are probably well above the target audience in terms of skill. By numbers, I'd guess small/mid size business IT personnel dwarf the higher end multi-tier {dev,eng,ops,sre,sec} of tech companies. And these IT folks generally need a push-button appliance experience due to education/skills. Think Microsoft products, and control panels and wizards on Linux like cPanel.
If you go walk the floor of a commercial data center, you will see tons of sonicwall, Ubiquiti, etc. Basically these are an open source version of those.
Now a subset of these projects might have some serious implementation smells, but I wouldn't really pass judgement on the users of any of those things. Just about any business can benefit from technology, not everything is well suited for services/hosted approaches, and there is clearly a need for simplified IT equipment.
If you go walk the floor of a commercial data center, you will see tons of sonicwall, Ubiquiti, etc. Basically these are an open source version of those.
Now a subset of these projects might have some serious implementation smells, but I wouldn't really pass judgement on the users of any of those things. Just about any business can benefit from technology, not everything is well suited for services/hosted approaches, and there is clearly a need for simplified IT equipment.