Hi Nick and all, 

Since the Excel read/modify/write capabilities will be used in a critical piece 
of production software, I believe what we're looking for is the following 
* The Excel library to be an SEP (Somebody Else's Problem), should something go 
wrong.
* Some type of Service Level Agreement for performing priority bug fixes, with 
contact via email and phone.

This allows the development team to focus on core business and trust that 
Apache POI bugs that get in the way get fixed promptly.
We're close to making a decision to going with a commercial library,  but I 
would still like to explore this route.

Please let me know your ideas.

Thanks & best,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Burch [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 4:03 AM
To: POI Users List
Subject: Re: Commercial support for Apache POI?

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, David Harrison wrote:
> Is there currently a company offering commercial support POI?  If so, 
> please share the details as this will help in evaluation which 
> Java-Excel library to use on a project.

What kind of support are you after? Pay-per-incident support? Consultancy? 
Retainer? Expediated bug fixes? Someone to add new features to the project 
for you?

Depending on what you're after will affect what (if any) companies might 
be able to help.

(The company I work for offers consultancy and enhancements for a few open 
source projects including POI, at times when in-house projects permit, but 
not some of the other kinds of support, just as an example)

Thanks
Nick

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