Just my 2cents. I've been aware of that fact for a while as the institution I work for has bought in the past year an Amanda Enterprise license from Carbonite/Zmanda for a proprietary filer/NAS that needs NDMP for backups and back in late February I received a notice from a Carbonite sales rep about BETSOL acquiring them.
I'm a bit pessimistic about the whole deal and considering my options now: I have a case support that I opened before the deal was announced in February and for weeks I have been waiting for updates, asking for any updates, every week, to no avail. Just an automatic reply about support looking into the issue. It's been more than 2 months now. The sales rep though assures me that (his words): "Betsol is absolutely honoring the licensing and support subscriptions purchased from Zmanda-Carbonite that are still active". just saying, jf * Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> [20180508 13:15]: > My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a long > time and sent me this: > > BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup > > <http://chicagoeveningpost.com/2018/05/06/betsol-completes-the-acquisition-of-zmanda-enterprise-backup/> > > > Chicago Evening Post > “We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,” said Ashok > Reddy, CEO of BETSOL. > “With the Rebit acquisition, we are gaining good traction in consumer and > SMB backup market. > Now, with *Zmanda*, our enterprise customers have award-winning reliable > product lines with > best-in-class ... > > > I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless > transition. There is supposed to be a new Zmanda website in the > works. My sense was that it had become stale under Carbonite. For > example, the blogs show 2013 as the latest entry. I've also had some > trouble editing the wiki at multiple times over the last couple of > years. > > Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they > going to be adding anyone? Or getting help from BETSOL? > > Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to > share – realizing it is still early in the game. > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments > (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <[email protected]> > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 >
