On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:24, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2010 19:06:58 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote:
> > What if new comunity features (ex.: rerun failed jobs) were priced, and
> > if we got that ammount on donations Bacula System would implement and
> > distribute the code?
>
> Sorry, but I don't really understand your question. Are you making a
> suggestion? or are you asking a hypothetical question?
>
> One point, a small programming project of say about 1 man month of work,
> costs
> about $20,000 for any company so any reasonable sized project is out of the
> reach of any community contributions.
>
> Bacula Systems does do funded development (only for customers), but to
> date,
> no funds received have ever come close to covering all the costs -- the
> difference is made up by Bacula Systems.
>
> Kern
>
>
He may not understand the scope, but I do. The odds are probably tiny that
any goal would be actually met by individuals, but I doubt that just
individuals would see the use in this. Plus it doesn't really cost much to
maintain a couple bar graphs tracking money people have sent you, and it's
additional revenue that you would never have had otherwise for the most
part. While you may be cheaper than say Veritas et al, your current price
structure is still far outside the realm that most all small (or even
medium) business backup budgets that I've worked or consulted for would ever
consider for backup software, especially with not just competition from your
community product, but Amanda et al.
As much as I hate to admit it, it reminds me of Sveasoft's (if you haven't
heard of them, they were one of the first to make a derivitive of busybox
for the WRT54G wireless routers with a wide feature set -- It's worth
Googling, but I'd ignore the side issues they had with the community)
business model in some respects, athough with a lot less malicious intent.
I'm just saying it's worth a conversation internally, if nothing else.
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