Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG

[Andreas Kasenides]

I find it extremely interesting that no one has commented on the merger 
of Dovecot Oy and Open-Xchange AG as announced by Timo on the 19th. Is 
this something that was known a long time ago and I missed? OK checked 
the on-line archive of the mailing list, no comments there - its not my 
email set-up - LOL.
I am usually emotionally (at least) against of open-source projects 
loosing their independence to large corporations. Possibly due to bad 
experiences in the past when OSS were driven from Open to Obscure in the 
process of trying to make money out of them. I have several examples in 
mind but I will not give names. At least that is the impression I have 
which might be entirely wrong since when big companies begin to ask for 
large sums of money we just have to move away due to the small budget.
Anyway this is not to about judging the move. Which I cannot do since I 
have no knowledge whatsover of the Dovecot enterprise internals and the 
difficulties that come with managing a leading software product. And, 
secondly, since I am (my employer ie) a non paying customer!!
I was just struck by the fact that no one has commented on it.

I wish Dovecot the best in the new environment.

Andreas

On 19/03/15 12:26, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them.
>
> Here are the press release links about it:
> http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-worlds-leading-open-source-messaging-software-provider/
> http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot
> http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18


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