Hi to all: Immo, the route plan presented by Kern is the way to go if we want Bacula expanded in the Enterprise world ( and again, immo, I'm absolutely convinced that today Bacula fits well in this scenarios, with some new features will be the #1 ).
Things are changing and Bacula is in the good place and in the good instant to explode as a good Backup Enterprise Solution. Only take a look to the prices of each installation/maintenance/agents for other commercial solutions. For example, oracle agents ( and depending on the provider, this agents has a very basic features ) price ranges from 500 € to up ( normally 600 ). If you need 10 agents ( 6000 € + ¿10%-20% each year ? ) + price for the server software and number of systems to protect +¿10%-20% each year ?... How much disk storage / tape devices can you buy with less than 50% of the money that you should spend with the closed provider? > I definitely was in that category. We had/have several licenses for a > commercial product but the license structure (which I consider a form > of extortion) and total lack of free technical support (even for bugs > with their software) were the the main reasons for looking for other > alternatives. With the creation of a company, and the well done work with Bacula, you can give to potential customers the solution to is needs. In fact, customers wants 2 things: The product must do what you say that it does, and, when having problems, a telephone number to call and say 'I've this problem and I need to solve it NOW!' I'm talking about SERVICE. You can get money for the process of customer solution design, implementation, maintenance, hot support and Training. And all of this with a less expend for customers than closed solutions. My two cents Best regards D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
