This isn't an official press release, and you shouldn’t read it that way.[1]
This is Puppet Labs letting the rest of our community (particularly those of you who didn’t hear us talk about this at Puppet Camp this year) know exactly what we’re doing in the near future so that any upcoming press releases are not a surprise. We are going to be releasing a bundled version of our open source products called Puppet Enterprise early next year as a *commercial* product. This is a complete stack of all the dependencies required to run a scalable and integrated Puppet installation, in a self-contained location with a simple yet powerful install process. All of the software in the stack will remain licensed as open source. The value add will be in the ease of installation, the out of the box integration and the ability to easily scale. I do want to explicitly make people understand that this doesn’t change our commitment to open source and community, particularly Puppet itself. I believe we’ve been quite clear for a long time that Puppet Labs will be releasing commercial products as well as open source ones. Open source is a critical part of our business strategy. We are not working to an Open Core model, we are simply producing open source products as well as commercial products. I am positive that Puppet will continue to be an awesomely useful open source product. We will not be blocking functionality in Puppet in order to only provide it in Puppet Enterprise. On the other hand, I really don’t want to give the impression that we have a master plan that we’re slowly revealing to you all. We don’t know exactly how this will all shake out, and I think I’d be pretty stupid to claim otherwise. For those of you who are interested in evaluating Puppet Enterprise, we will be producing a private beta in December targeted at RHEL and Ubuntu LTS, with support for other platforms following. If you are interested in applying to be a beta candidate, you can do so here. http://info.puppetlabs.com/pe-beta.html cheers, Nigel [1] - For those of you who’ve heard me speak, try reading it in Australian English. If you haven’t, just pretend it’s James Earl Jones. -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
