Everyone,
I took the liberty of contacting ZeroG, the makers of InstallAnywhere,
about getting a free version of their product to use for distributing
Jetspeed. They actually seem very amenable to the idea so long as we
provide them with a quote they can use for a press release. I have a
working installer I wrote using IzPack which open source,
http://www.izforge.com/izpack/. However, IzPack isn't the easiest to
work with and does not really have many features which required me to
90% of the install logic using ant (which actually wasn't bad). I would
be willing to rewrite the installer using InstallAnywhere if we agree to
move forward with it. I really don't see an issue since Apache uses
Jira, which is a commercial product that gives OS projects free use of
their product.
Thoughts?
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Subject: FW: Concerning InstallAnywhere
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:24:25 -0800
From: Whitman Shenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Ross Buffington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carrie Hammond
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Scott:
Thank you for contacting Zero G. We will provide you with a
complementary copy of InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition if you will be
willing to provide a quote which Zero G can use for a press release. We
will simply need you to agree to provide a quote, and once you have
successful deployed with InstallAnywhere, we will request the quote.
Hopefully this will be within a 90 day period.
This offer is only valid if you agree that the distribution is for
non-commercial purposes.
Regards,
Whitman
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Whitman Shenk
Senior Account Manager
Zero G Software, Inc.
tel: +1.415.512.7771 x 329
fax: +1.415.276.3057
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ZeroG.com
The leading provider of multi-platform software deployment solutions.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:28 AM
To: info
Subject: Concerning InstallAnywhere
Hello,
Is there any chance ZeroG would provide a non-expiring version of
InstallAnywhere to an open source projects, similar to Jira's model? I
am evaluating install mechanisms to distribute binary versions of Apache
Jetspeed Portal Server, http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/.
Regards,
--
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds
discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover
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