On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jeffrey C. Baldwin wrote: > Does the Bacula project have a 'commercial' arm that provides pay support?
There are people who provide paid Bacula support. There is no native netware client, simply because none of the active coders have "felt the need" for it yet. (*) Similarly for VMS(**) or appliance backups (having said that, I can't see why Bacula-fd can't be shoehorned into windows/linux/bsd based sppliances) If you offer to pay someone to write a suitable client, this would change - you'd get kudos for funding opensource development, have a native client for a backup program which runs rings around most other packages (commercial or not) and Bacula would enter into another area of enterprise backup.... (*) Those who feel the need, don't seem to have time/ability/permission to cut code to do the job. Those who do have the 3 prerequisites don't currently feel a need - open source coding is very strongly driven in a lot of areas by fundamentally selfish motives (I'm repeatedly guilty of writing clunky stuff which works for what I want, then kicking it out into the world for someone else to tear apart and come up with something better.) (**) MSSL still has a small amount of funding (~UKP500) available for anyone who has access to OpenVMS and can write a functional bacula client. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
