Il 12/11/2012 12:33, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
Hi all,
Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page
lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending
the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
* Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon
S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
* Email archive storage.
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
I’ve been developing Dovecot for over 10 years now. For a long time it was my
primary motivation in life to create the best IMAP server available :) I think
I've pretty much accomplished that by now.
The future is looking very bright for Dovecot: we will continue the open source
development stronger than ever, but in addition, for the long term it needs
some additional licensed components that bring the money to cover the cost for
future Dovecot development and to be able to build up the support in a
professional way.
These new features will be added as plugins on top of Dovecot to extend the
functionality. Note that I’m not just randomly choosing which features will be
open and which will be licensed. Only some specific features will be licensed
where my company is going to make money with partnerships and in other
measurable ways.
I'm really interesting in storing email into object storage, since our
IaaS provider is using Scality we can simple buy dovecot's plugin for
scality.
I will contact Dovecot Oy for more informations.
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