You can get a support contract on the OSS version as well and just use what you pay for. If you need Multi-Site replication though, yes that's a EDS thing.

Don't forget though, if you are in a startup, we have Riak for Startups (http://basho.com/products/riak-enterprise-for-startups/) where you pay what you can.

I was under the impression that Basho specifically chose not to provide paid support for the OSS version. Were you speaking of other companies offering support, or is this a new thing?

What I was essentially saying was you can pay for EE for the support even if you weren't getting it for the multi-site ability.

ah. gotcha.