Dear OpenPKG Fellows, based on the valuable feedback you gave to OpenPKG during the last polling in February we have improved the overall OpenPKG offering for the satisfaction of your needs. Your feedback showed that the OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE and OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID series are too disproportionate. The OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE series lacks the stability and compatibility of a full blown release and the full featured OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID offering has been reported to be too expensive for small and medium sized enterprises and individual professionals.
Hence the OpenPKG GmbH decided to create a variant of the OpenPKG Enterprise 1 tailored for SMEs and professionals -- the new product OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro. Both OpenPKG Enterprise offerings share exactly the same package pool and are very similar to operate. Changes are predominantly organizational. The OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro is a pure online product. The biggest technical difference to its big brother is the online addiction in terms of mandatory daily registry uploads, the restricted browsing access to the pool and the inability to create a local mirror of packages. That said, the new product can be exclusively purchased through an online shop, it is intrinsically tied to the OpenPKG Fellow who activates it and bound to the server it is activated for. As a return it is available for a very low-priced subscription fee at just about 10% of the price of the regular OpenPKG Enterprise 1 product. The new OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro empowers SMEs and professionals with capabilities previously only available for a much higher fee. Hence, the OpenPKG organizations end of April 2007 will revise the OpenPKG offerings as following: - As in the past, the OpenPKG Project at openpkg.ORG will continue to deliver OpenPKG Community CURRENT source packages to OpenPKG Fellows fully free of charge via FTP. OpenPKG Community CURRENT always was and always will be the ultimate package origin and testbed of OpenPKG. - The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. at openpkg.NET may offer additional packages like CURRENT binaries to its members, maybe to fellows. This has not been decided upon. Organizational changes are underway which likely need to be completed first. - The OpenPKG GmbH at openpkg.COM will offer the OpenPKG Enterprise product to corporate and professional customers. The full blown OpenPKG Enterprise 1 product can be RSYNC'ed, the OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro can access packages selectively through HTTP using "openpkg curl" and "openpkg build" commands only. Additionally, the OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro can be evaluated free of charge through a forked package pool based on the initial E1.0-RELEASE packages (E1.0.0) plus some selective update packages from E1.0-SOLID. We are confident this new OpenPKG offering is balanced as best as possible to both serve enterprises, professionals and developers in our OpenPKG community. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG http://openpkg.org Announcement List openpkg-announce@openpkg.org