I''m excited about this. Congratulations to puppet labs for this
milestone!
PS, when are you selling stock ? =]
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Nigel Kersten <nigel@puppetlabs.com>
wrote:
> This isn''t an official press release, and you shouldn’t read it
that
> way.[1]
>
> This is Puppet Labs letting the rest of our community (particularly
> those of you who didn’t hear us talk about this at Puppet Camp this
> year) know exactly what we’re doing in the near future so that any
> upcoming press releases are not a surprise.
>
> We are going to be releasing a bundled version of our open source
> products called Puppet Enterprise early next year as a *commercial*
> product.
>
> This is a complete stack of all the dependencies required to run a
> scalable and integrated Puppet installation, in a self-contained
> location with a simple yet powerful install process. All of the
> software in the stack will remain licensed as open source. The value
> add will be in the ease of installation, the out of the box
> integration and the ability to easily scale.
>
> I do want to explicitly make people understand that this doesn’t
> change our commitment to open source and community, particularly
> Puppet itself. I believe we’ve been quite clear for a long time that
> Puppet Labs will be releasing commercial products as well as open
> source ones.
>
> Open source is a critical part of our business strategy. We are not
> working to an Open Core model, we are simply producing open source
> products as well as commercial products.
>
> I am positive that Puppet will continue to be an awesomely useful open
> source product. We will not be blocking functionality in Puppet in
> order to only provide it in Puppet Enterprise.
>
> On the other hand, I really don’t want to give the impression that we
> have a master plan that we’re slowly revealing to you all. We don’t
> know exactly how this will all shake out, and I think I’d be pretty
> stupid to claim otherwise.
>
> For those of you who are interested in evaluating Puppet Enterprise,
> we will be producing a private beta in December targeted at RHEL and
> Ubuntu LTS, with support for other platforms following.
>
> If you are interested in applying to be a beta candidate, you can do so
> here.
>
> http://info.puppetlabs.com/pe-beta.html
>
>
> cheers,
> Nigel
>
> [1] - For those of you who’ve heard me speak, try reading it in
> Australian English. If you haven’t, just pretend it’s James Earl
> Jones.
>
>
>
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