On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:27:57PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote: > > We would therefore like to clarify that we regard our core Open Source > > products as our crown jewels > > This seems to be missing the reason why the new "Platform" is better off > non-OSS?
Hi Justin, That is because it is not universally better. I think you personally might find the "Platform" to be worse even! But read on for why. The best explanation may be found in the second to last link in the blogpost or email (if you have HTML email) on http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/06/its-actually-open-source-software-thats-eating-the-world/ About successful open source businesses, it says: "They’ve figured out that customers are more than happy to pay for an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may have security, management, or integration enhancements and come with support. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionality proprietary won’t alienate the community supporting the project the way something such as a performance enhancement would." Basically everything in the Platform is something you could build/hook yourself. You and I personally could do that easily, and the companies where we work would probably prefer that. In business this is referred as 'best of breed approach'. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BestOfBreed calls it: ".. the strategy of selecting the best product of each type (and integrating them yourself), rather than selecting one large integrated solution from a single vendor.". Not every company is like that though: they may prefer something that comes with loads of integrated features (graphing, failover, monitoring, graphical user interface, configuration audit trail etc) out of the box. Ideally, our "Platform" would consist of features that most of our Open Source friends would prefer to assemble themselves using the large amount of hooks (Pipe, Remotebackend, our backend API, our RestFUL/JSON API, Lua support, Carbon output, dnsdist DNSTAP (near future)) that we offer for that. The problem we are solving here is making ourselves more accessible for those places that do not in fact want to assemble all this themselves - without closing down the very open PowerDNS software. Does this help? Bert > > Is it a case of wanting the Platform to be a competative differentiator? > (GitHub style?) > > + Justin _______________________________________________ Pdns-dev mailing list Pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev
