dovecot - Nov 2012 - 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 at 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


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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