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Am I crazy or are #3 and #5 the same question?
On 01/24/2011 11:08 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 1 Jan 2011, I sent a Bacula Status report with a request for your feedback
> by filling out a survey.
>
> For those of you who have responded: many thanks. For those of you who have
> not responded, the survey will remain open until the end of the month, and it
> gives you a good opportunity to communicate directly with me about some
> important topics. To fill out the survey, just go to the following link:
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3
>
> The survey allow you to enter virtually any text you want to make your
> comments, and it is all completely anonymous.
>
> I thought you might like a bit of feedback on the results so far (more after
> the survey is complete).
>
> 1. I was surprised how many of you appreciate the need for commercial support
> by Bacula Systems. No one (so far) has responded that Bacula Systems is not
> at all important to the project.
>
> 2. I have purposely refrained from discussing Bacula Systems too much on this
> list, because this is a community list, and I would not like to bother you
> about the commercial aspects of Bacula. However, I did receive a few
> comments such as the following one:
>
> I realise that Bacula Systems is a necessary evil but at times I feel that
> 3rd party contibutors may be put off because lots of planing seems to be
> done by Bacula systems. In practice I don't think there is a problem but
> just lurking on the -devel list makes it sound like that.
>
> or others that said that they wanted to know what exactly is in the
> Enterprise
> edition compared to the Community version. At least one person believes that
> the Bacula Systems plans are secret.
>
> Answer:
> Yes, I can understand those concerns. Bacula Systems plans are not secret,
> it
> is just that I haven't announced them on this list. We openly discussed them
> in the Bacula Developer's conference and will do so in the next conference as
> well. Since most people seem to want to hear more about Bacula Systems, I
> will begin including something on it in the next status report (generally
> quarterly).
>
> 3. One person requested that we stop putting features in the Enterprise
> version that are not in the Community version.
>
> Answer:
> As of the current Enterprise release (4.0.4) there are NO features in the
> Enterprise release that are not in the Community release (this will change
> over time, see below...). Our initial concept was to have full open source
> and to make the source of the Enterprise available to everyone.
> Unfortunately, with that fully open source strategy the first two years of
> Bacula Systems generated losses. We have realized that we must differentiate
> the Enterprise version and the Community version. Most Open Source companies
> do this by becoming Open Core companies. That is they have a free Community
> version and a proprietary commercial version with more features. Our new
> strategy is to remain fully Open Source, but to differentiate, as other
> companies do, what is Enterprise and what is Community. Thus, a certain part
> of the new development that Bacula Systems undertakes will be Open Source for
> the Community version and another part will be Open Source for the Enterprise
> version. This strategy seems to be working. In many ways, we differentiate
> like Open Core companies, but remain full Open Source.
>
> To complete the answer, today, Bacula Systems is putting some new features
> into the Enterprise version (mostly plugins) that will not immediately be
> available in the Community. Those new plugins (Windows related) are
> currently in beta test, and most of such features (such as Oracle plugins,
> SAP plugins, NDMP, ...) are high end features needed by companies but not
> very useful to most community members.
>
> All bugs that we fix are fixed in both the Community and the Enterprise
> versions, and I expect that over time many of the Enterprise features will
> become available in the Community version.
>
> For now I'll stop there, but there are many other interesting subjects. I do
> encourage you to fill out the survey, because it is an excellent way to let
> us know what you are thinking.
>
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
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