I think everyone shares your concerns. But there are no rules that the outcome of this merger must get something bad, so let's see what happens. I hope that it's true what Timo said and that dovecot can evolve and get even better as it is today. Good luck guys!
Regards, Adrian. On 23.03.15 15:08, Andreas Kasenides wrote: > I find it extremely interesting that no one has commented on the merger > of Dovecot Oy and Open-Xchange AG as announced by Timo on the 19th. Is > this something that was known a long time ago and I missed? OK checked > the on-line archive of the mailing list, no comments there - its not my > email set-up - LOL. > I am usually emotionally (at least) against of open-source projects > loosing their independence to large corporations. Possibly due to bad > experiences in the past when OSS were driven from Open to Obscure in the > process of trying to make money out of them. I have several examples in > mind but I will not give names. At least that is the impression I have > which might be entirely wrong since when big companies begin to ask for > large sums of money we just have to move away due to the small budget. > Anyway this is not to about judging the move. Which I cannot do since I > have no knowledge whatsover of the Dovecot enterprise internals and the > difficulties that come with managing a leading software product. And, > secondly, since I am (my employer ie) a non paying customer!! > I was just struck by the fact that no one has commented on it. > > I wish Dovecot the best in the new environment. > > Andreas > > On 19/03/15 12:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with >> Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support >> people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to >> get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting >> stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match >> to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share >> our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this >> merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release >> schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same >> product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them. >> >> Here are the press release links about it: >> http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-worlds-leading-open-source-messaging-software-provider/ >> >> http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot >> http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18 > >
