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As has been hinted on this list, we are following Red Hat's lead with Fedora and turning the SME Server developer release over to the community. I don't think that this should come as a big surprise to anyone who has followed developments within the industry or on this list over the past years. As was eloquently stated on the list earlier today, Mitel is a commercial enterprise and has decided to focus our developers on our commercial products. Some of our developers may choose to continue to stay involved with whatever community effort emerges, doing so on their own time and outside of their regular responsibilities within Mitel. As noted below, we will be continuing to develop applications on top of our commercial release and as we make changes to GPL components we will release them to the community just as any other developer should do. What does this mean for the SME Server unsupported developer release, this list, e-smith.org, our commercial products, etc.? Read on... * SME Server 6.0 unsupported developer release We will be preparing a 6.0 unsupported developer release in the next week or two that will essentially be 6.0beta3 plus a few recent security updates. This will be the last "official" unsupported developer release that we have planned. Any future releases are really up to you. (For all of you who have been asking for a roadmap in the past, now is your chance!) * e-smith.org bulletin boards We have already received agreement from the contribs.org staff that they could host the forums there and we had tentatively agreed to perform the move next week. (I was actually waiting to announce all this until after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and after I had received confirmation from the contribs.org folks that they were all set on their end.) * devinfo mailing list Given that the development will be taking place outside of Mitel, we would like to see another host found for this mailing list. The contribs.org staff has indicated their willingness to host the list and we will continue to maintain this list until such a list exists. * Bug reporting Again, as this will now be a community project, we are expecting that the community will start up a bug reporting database. Mitel Networks will continue to accept bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and will continue to process them there until an alternative system is running, and will thereafter forward new bug reports to the new system. Commercial customers should, of course, continue to contact their reseller for support as they do today. * Copyright and licensing The code in the SME Server remains copyright Mitel Networks and is released under the GNU General Public License. The GPL provides you with the freedom to modify the software as you choose, but also comes with the requirement to share those modifications. We trust that those people who derive software from the SME Server will comply with the requirements of the GPL. * 6000 MAS commercial release We currently use the 6000 MAS base operating system as the base for several solutions including the 6010 Teleworker Solution, the 6040 Office Server Suite and 6042 Managed VPN. Given that the 6040 Office Server Suite and 6042 Managed VPN are both mature, stable, robust products that have the range of functionality that our customers have asked for, we have moved our developer focus to the Teleworker Solution and several other upcoming products. At the current time we do not have any plans to further develop the 6040 and 6042 packages. We will continue to fix reported bugs and issue security updates for supported releases, but do not plan on adding additional features until we are presented with appropriate business reasons to do so. In regions where we currently have trained resellers who can support the products, we will continue to sell the 6040/6042 products and support existing customers. Development continues strongly on our 6010 Teleworker Solution and other telephony-focused products and sales continue to be available globally. If you have further questions about our commercial products, please contact me directly. I am extremely pleased to see the comments posted both here and already over at the contribs.org forum and very much look forward to seeing what will evolve out of this community. If you have questions about all of this, please do let me know. Unfortunately, I will be offline for the next four days celebrating U.S. Thanksgiving but I will certainly review comments when I return on Monday, December 1st. Thank you all for the efforts you have put into the SME Server over the many years and I look forward to seeing how it evolves. Regards, Dan - -- Dan York, Director of Product Management, Mobility Solutions Mitel Networks Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +1-613-592-2122 http://www.mitel.com/ 350 Legget Drive, Ottawa, ON, K2K 2W7 Canada PGP fingerprint = 3514 635F F655 7E0D E77D 3CC9 B559 39E7 F7E3 C3B4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96rc1 iD8DBQE/xS9xtVk55/fjw7QRAkmaAJ9xoHYv47tezMf7Dn7zesXY9ChAHQCeNwgb cLpierL0jYAobMrwoPnJU94= =EWbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
