Thank you Kern and others! I appreciate the information which will be useful in our decision on which way to go (stay with open source or sign-up for BE).
-craig On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote: > On 10/19/2015 05:15 AM, Compdoc wrote: > > >Well, did you try to find prices at IBM webpage for its products? > > I used to work for IBM. I know i cant afford them. Now I service computers > for small and medium size businesses, and I look for alternatives to yearly > support subscriptions because in the end, I find the answers to their > problems. It's been many years since I've needed paid support. Many years. > > Really, who doesn't want clear, concise pricing while avoiding salesmen > who can set prices based on what they think you can afford to pay? And who > doesn't want anonymity? I spend a lot money with Amazon because i can see > their prices and there's no waiting... > > Anyway, everyone wants to see bacula do well, including me, but adopting > the business models of huge corporations seems like the antithesis of open > source, and possibly marks the end of a great open source project. It's > sad, is all. > > > Your point of view seems to me to be a bit too pessimistic. Bacula > Systems is a company that (for the moment) is competing with big companies > in the enterprise market such as EMC, Symantec, IBM, HP, and ... Bacula > Systems is doing quite well in that market and has been consistently > growing at about 65% in revenues each year since its creation, consequently > the future of Bacula Systems looks quite bright. The rather standard way of > dealing with pricing seems to be more an advantage rather than a hindrance > at least in the Enterprise market. > > Then to extrapolate a positive Bacula Systems corporate financial future > to the "end of a great open source project" is a pretty big leap that does > not appear to me to be reasonable. In addition, as long a Bacula Systems > continues to create new code for the Bacula Enterprise version, the > community version will continue to grow and evolve with the migration of > Enterprise code to the community. Even without Bacula Systems, though it > would be harder, Bacula community can do quite well. > > Best regards, > Kern > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing > listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >
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