Hello, I am forwarding this to the bacula-users list since I imagine this might interest some of you.
Best regards, Kern ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula in the press Date: Saturday 17 January 2009 From: Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> To: bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net On Saturday 17 January 2009 17:39:03 Dan Langille wrote: > Backup Central - Another open-source backup product goes commercial > Bacula Systems is now the commercial arm for the popular open-source > backup product Bacula. "It roams the datacenter at night and sucks the > vital essence from your computers." I'm not making that up. This is the > second open-source ... > > http://www.backupcentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=214&Itemid=47 > > One major point that no one has seized yet is that the Bacula Systems "commercial arm" is different in a significant way from other companies (MySQL, Zmanda, ...). That is, Bacula Systems does not envision having a community version and an enterprise version of the software. That is: the so called enterprise version will be built directly from the community SVN with only minor textual Bacula Systems branding. That isn't to say that Bacula Systems does not and will not offer additional services around Bacula -- certified and tested binaries, more frequent binaries rather than patches, binaries for OSes not currently available, additional documentation, improved procedures (some such as the one directory install are not acceptable to most the Linux world), training, consulting, funded development, ... For example, one funded development resulted in the MS Exchange plugin, which is part of the Bacula source code. This development could not have been done or even contracted by the project, but was by Bacula Systems. The actual programming was done by James Harper, and the funding to make this happen was very kindly provided by Equiinet (www.equiinet.com), and we thank them very much. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
