Francisco Reyes wrote: > Mark Burgess writes: > > >> PLease contribute to the future of Cfengine by buying the commercial >> version. > > Like many other things with CFengine, even that I find not to be > straight forward.
I'm sorry you feel that way. We do our best. Unlike most websites that have little content, we have the opposite problem -- too much content. That's an even harder problem. > So far from what I can tell the only way to get pricing information is > to ask for a quote. Did I miss a page with pricing? > > According to http://www.cfengine.com/pages/licenses, the way to get > pricing is to go to http://www.cfengine.com/pages/contactUs > > Why make it difficult to just get pricing? You will not find prices for datacenter software on any company websites. The price depends on many factors, size and length or contract etc. It would be misleading to give a price. We used to have a price matrix in the engine room, but it seems to have been dropped in the reworking. I'll check it out. > Also is there a grid or matrix of what features one can get on the > commercial edition that do not exist on the commercial edition? > Looking at http://cfengine.com/pages/nova_benefits it seems many, if not > all, of those benefits may be obtained from the community edition. Cfengine Nova is aimed at satisfying the needs of businesses. As an administrator, you might find what you want in the Open Source version, but your boss is not likely to be impressed. Nova is trying to usher in a better way of aligning business and IT departments, offering knowledge management and transparency to operations. It handles compliance auditing etc and has some extra features to integrate with databases and monitoring/analytics. Most Open Source projects do nothing to assure businesses that their goals and requirements are being met. We are just a few weeks away from Nova 2 release, so no documents have been updated yet. That task is still TBD. > Lastly, is cfengine "community" just a limited version of your > commercial product or is it "community" in a way that there are > developers outside CFengine AS contributing and involved in it's > development? There are no developers outside of Cfengine that I know of. -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
