-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am I crazy or are #3 and #5 the same question?
On 01/24/2011 11:08 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > On 1 Jan 2011, I sent a Bacula Status report with a request for your feedback > by filling out a survey. > > For those of you who have responded: many thanks. For those of you who have > not responded, the survey will remain open until the end of the month, and it > gives you a good opportunity to communicate directly with me about some > important topics. To fill out the survey, just go to the following link: > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3 > > The survey allow you to enter virtually any text you want to make your > comments, and it is all completely anonymous. > > I thought you might like a bit of feedback on the results so far (more after > the survey is complete). > > 1. I was surprised how many of you appreciate the need for commercial support > by Bacula Systems. No one (so far) has responded that Bacula Systems is not > at all important to the project. > > 2. I have purposely refrained from discussing Bacula Systems too much on this > list, because this is a community list, and I would not like to bother you > about the commercial aspects of Bacula. However, I did receive a few > comments such as the following one: > > I realise that Bacula Systems is a necessary evil but at times I feel that > 3rd party contibutors may be put off because lots of planing seems to be > done by Bacula systems. In practice I don't think there is a problem but > just lurking on the -devel list makes it sound like that. > > or others that said that they wanted to know what exactly is in the > Enterprise > edition compared to the Community version. At least one person believes that > the Bacula Systems plans are secret. > > Answer: > Yes, I can understand those concerns. Bacula Systems plans are not secret, > it > is just that I haven't announced them on this list. We openly discussed them > in the Bacula Developer's conference and will do so in the next conference as > well. Since most people seem to want to hear more about Bacula Systems, I > will begin including something on it in the next status report (generally > quarterly). > > 3. One person requested that we stop putting features in the Enterprise > version that are not in the Community version. > > Answer: > As of the current Enterprise release (4.0.4) there are NO features in the > Enterprise release that are not in the Community release (this will change > over time, see below...). Our initial concept was to have full open source > and to make the source of the Enterprise available to everyone. > Unfortunately, with that fully open source strategy the first two years of > Bacula Systems generated losses. We have realized that we must differentiate > the Enterprise version and the Community version. Most Open Source companies > do this by becoming Open Core companies. That is they have a free Community > version and a proprietary commercial version with more features. Our new > strategy is to remain fully Open Source, but to differentiate, as other > companies do, what is Enterprise and what is Community. Thus, a certain part > of the new development that Bacula Systems undertakes will be Open Source for > the Community version and another part will be Open Source for the Enterprise > version. This strategy seems to be working. In many ways, we differentiate > like Open Core companies, but remain full Open Source. > > To complete the answer, today, Bacula Systems is putting some new features > into the Enterprise version (mostly plugins) that will not immediately be > available in the Community. Those new plugins (Windows related) are > currently in beta test, and most of such features (such as Oracle plugins, > SAP plugins, NDMP, ...) are high end features needed by companies but not > very useful to most community members. > > All bugs that we fix are fixed in both the Community and the Enterprise > versions, and I expect that over time many of the Enterprise features will > become available in the Community version. > > For now I'll stop there, but there are many other interesting subjects. I do > encourage you to fill out the survey, because it is an excellent way to let > us know what you are thinking. > > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3 > > > Best regards, > > Kern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. 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