Re: [Bacula-users] Capabilities of Bacula 7.0.5

On 10/19/2015 05:15 AM, Compdoc wrote:

>Well, did you try to find prices at IBM webpage for its products?

I used to work for IBM. I know i cant afford them. Now I service computers for small and medium size businesses, and I look for alternatives to yearly support subscriptions because in the end, I find the answers to their problems. It's been many years since I've needed paid support. Many years.

Really, who doesn't want clear, concise pricing while avoiding salesmen who can set prices based on what they think you can afford to pay? And who doesn't want anonymity? I spend a lot money with Amazon because i can see their prices and there's no waiting...

Anyway, everyone wants to see bacula do well, including me, but adopting the business models of huge corporations seems like the antithesis of open source, and possibly marks the end of a great open source project. It's sad, is all.

Your point of view seems to me to be a bit too pessimistic. Bacula Systems is a company that (for the moment) is competing with big companies in the enterprise market such as EMC, Symantec, IBM, HP, and ... Bacula Systems is doing quite well in that market and has been consistently growing at about 65% in revenues each year since its creation, consequently the future of Bacula Systems looks quite bright. The rather standard way of dealing with pricing seems to be more an advantage rather than a hindrance at least in the Enterprise market.

Then to extrapolate a positive Bacula Systems corporate financial future to the "end of a great open source project" is a pretty big leap that does not appear to me to be reasonable. In addition, as long a Bacula Systems continues to create new code for the Bacula Enterprise version, the community version will continue to grow and evolve with the migration of Enterprise code to the community. Even without Bacula Systems, though it would be harder, Bacula community can do quite well.

Best regards,
Kern

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