On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Jason Slagle wrote: > > > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Burkholder, Peter wrote: > >>> That's not how the model tends to work though. Usually the >>> paid community gets the product first with the community >>> version lagging behind by a release. >> >> Huh? Not in Red Hat's model: >> >> Fedora -> RHEL >> JOPR -> JON >> Spacewalk -> Satellite. >> >> The community version leads, not lags. > > Different operating model than the ones I'm thinking of. Things like > zmanda as pointed out where the commercial version will get features > or > other items not yet present in the community edition. > > Groundwork monitor seems to follow a similiar model.
I can't speak for zmanda, but IMO Groundwork is more of a horrible warning than a good example. AFAICT they basically founded the company as a way to make money from open source without going through the minor bother of actually writing any. My understanding is that they've gotten better in recent years, and I don't know enough about them to be really mean, but if Puppet ever did have an "enterprise" edition (which is pretty unlikely) it would always look a lot more like RHEL than, um, the other stuff. Enterprises like it slow and stable. :) > > It's more appropriate to new features, but thats where your bugs > tend to > come from. > > And you're not exactly right. > > Spacewalk was just born from satellite. The open source version > lagged by > years. It's more appropriate to say that Satellite was only recently open- sourced. > > Similiar story with GFS, directory server, etc. The features went > in the > commercial product first. Only later were they opened up. If you > consider them as addons to redhat, it makes the story similiar there. > > The "Core" would lag, but the add ons bolted on would lead. Those > addons > will be the things with bugs. > > Luke has expressed a disinterest in this model though so it's largely > irrelevant. I will say, I'm a lot less sure about the future revenue models than I was when I started. At this point, I'm mostly interested in clarity, with a much smaller focus on our long term revenue. I just don't want to make stupid decisions here that hurt our ability to grow Puppet in the long term. -- I'm worried about Bart. Today, he's sucking people's blood, tommorrow he might be smoking. -Marge Simpson --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
