[Dovecot] Commercial features in Dovecot future: Object storage, archive
Hi all,
Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
Email archive storage.
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
I’ve been developing Dovecot for over 10 years now. For a long time it was my primary motivation in life to create the best IMAP server available :) I think I've pretty much accomplished that by now.
The future is looking very bright for Dovecot: we will continue the open source development stronger than ever, but in addition, for the long term it needs some additional licensed components that bring the money to cover the cost for future Dovecot development and to be able to build up the support in a professional way.
These new features will be added as plugins on top of Dovecot to extend the functionality. Note that I’m not just randomly choosing which features will be open and which will be licensed. Only some specific features will be licensed where my company is going to make money with partnerships and in other measurable ways.
Il 12/11/2012 12:33, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
Hi all,
Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
Email archive storage.
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
I’ve been developing Dovecot for over 10 years now. For a long time it was my primary motivation in life to create the best IMAP server available :) I think I've pretty much accomplished that by now.
The future is looking very bright for Dovecot: we will continue the open source development stronger than ever, but in addition, for the long term it needs some additional licensed components that bring the money to cover the cost for future Dovecot development and to be able to build up the support in a professional way.
These new features will be added as plugins on top of Dovecot to extend the functionality. Note that I’m not just randomly choosing which features will be open and which will be licensed. Only some specific features will be licensed where my company is going to make money with partnerships and in other measurable ways.
I'm really interesting in storing email into object storage, since our IaaS provider is using Scality we can simple buy dovecot's plugin for scality.
I will contact Dovecot Oy for more informations.
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
Hi all,
Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
Email archive storage.
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
404 file not found, but it was not too difficult to guess where you meant.
I'm not too interested in the extended functionality, but the extra tested, bugfix-only/mainly Enterprise Release sounds very interesting. That page isn't quite clear on if the enterprise release is meant to be free or not "(Some features may require license fees)". Could you please clarify? Is it available already?
We're starting to be long overdue for an overhaul of our installation (currently on v2.0.14 + some fixes), so we need to do something soon...
-jf
Am 13.11.2012 10:17, schrieb Jan-Frode Myklebust:
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details. 404 file not found, but it was not too difficult to guess where you meant.
no problem here
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Am 13.11.2012 12:32, schrieb Robert Schetterer:
Am 13.11.2012 10:17, schrieb Jan-Frode Myklebust:
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details. 404 file not found, but it was not too difficult to guess where you meant.
no problem here
having a shiny laout does not mean that you do not see a error page since it is one httpd-config-line
read the page title
<title>Whoops! Page Not Found | The world's most popular IMAP server!</title>
read the response-headers: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:36:40 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
scroll down: Whoops! Page Not Found Don't fret, you didn't do anything wrong. It appears that the page you are looking for does not exist or has been moved elsewhere.
Am 13.11.2012 12:38, schrieb Reindl Harald:
read the page title
<title>Whoops! Page Not Found |
ok , i see youre right, i am rare looking in tab text
Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer
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On 13.11.2012, at 11.17, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
Hi all,
Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot.
Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality.
Email archive storage.
See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details.
404 file not found, but it was not too difficult to guess where you meant.
It worked when I wrote the email, but broke since then :)
I'm not too interested in the extended functionality, but the extra tested, bugfix-only/mainly Enterprise Release sounds very interesting. That page isn't quite clear on if the enterprise release is meant to be free or not "(Some features may require license fees)". Could you please clarify? Is it available already?
It's currently available if you buy a support contract. (RPMs and source tarball, DEBs should come in somewhat near future.)
participants (5)
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Alessio Cecchi
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Jan-Frode Myklebust
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Reindl Harald
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Robert Schetterer
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Timo Sirainen