What are you talking about? What business structure? Commercial offerings can and will continue to exist in terms of custom features or consulting.
Firstly, it ceases to be a community version when there is a charge. Secondly, it would damage our community by shrinking the size to effectively none while a hard fork (or more) spring up and people migrate to them. Moreover, unless you change the license people will redistribute newer versions for free. So, while I have no say so in any of this, I believe it would be a very short sighted move. There are many other ways that money for the oss/foundation can be raised if money or supplies are needed. Jim On January 6, 2016 9:14:21 AM EST, "FarjadFarid(ChkNet)" <farjad.fa...@checknetworks.com> wrote: >Hi Karsten, > >> You may be mistaking the community version for any of the >commercially >supported offerings ? > >It is possible. Please fill in the figures. > >What I am suggesting is that even for community version there should be >a >charge. > >But as I mentioned it is not just prices. > >May be I wasn't very clear the most important factor is the business >structure then quality of products and marketing together with pricing. > > >As a further example consider how a very small company like ARM beat >giants >like Intel and Samsung in the mobile phone industry. > >It is their business model that is not profitable for Intel and Samsung >to >emulate. > >*Of course they have a great products. Equally importantly their >business >model makes it realistic and profitable for other >companies to use their services. * > >I am only providing some food for thought. For me we can all learn from >other people's successes and failures. > >I for one think everyone on the team have done a great job bringing >postgresql to this stage. > >Good luck > > > >Farjad Farid > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org >[mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Karsten >Hilbert >Sent: 06 January 2016 11:32 >To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time? > >On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:22:17AM -0000, FarjadFarid(ChkNet) wrote: > >> I am not in favour of massive price structures but that there should >> be $100-$200 costs for smallest version. Times several million >> products. This may allow postgresql to reduce its prices on its the >> top of the range products. > >You may be mistaking the community version for any of the commercially >supported offerings ? > >Regards, >Karsten >-- >GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net >E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 > > >-- >Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) >To make changes to your subscription: >http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > > > >-- >Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) >To make changes to your subscription: >http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
