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.
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