[Users] Expected release for complete ovirt?

[Andrew Cathrow]

I'm confused by this email.

It sounds like you say below that you are "losing a lot business" because you don't have a free solution that you can charge your customers for but you don't have time to contribute to help make one. If you want to charge customers for oVirt then it seems appropriate to contribute.


----- Original Message -----
> From: "José Román Bilbao Castro" <jrbcast at gmail.com>
> To: "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 12:22:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Expected release for complete ovirt?
> 
> Hi Perry,
> 
> I agree, I will be delighted to actively help with the Project. The
> main
> problem is that I have no much spare time ... but If I can help
> somewhat,
> please let me know ;-).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jose.
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Perry Myers [mailto:pmyers at redhat.com]
> Enviado el: viernes, 04 de noviembre de 2011 16:56
> Para: José Román Bilbao Castro
> CC: 'Itamar Heim'; users at ovirt.org
> Asunto: Re: [Users] Expected release for complete ovirt?
> 
> On 11/04/2011 04:16 AM, José Román Bilbao Castro wrote:
> > It is a pity, we are losing a lot of business because small-medium
> > sized businesses cannot afford to pay for "expensive" (they cost
> > what
> > they offer but many times you don't need it all) licenses like
> > those
> > from vmWare, citrix and RedHat. I am basically looking for an open
> > source High availabiklity-enabled virtualization platform... oVirt
> > seems exactly what I am looking for but I cannot offer it right now
> > to
> > my clients :-(... let's then wait a bit. Any roadmap or timeline in
> > mind?.
> 
> My advice if you want to make oVirt suitable for your clients is to
> get some
> people helping with the project.  Start submitting patches, and help
> to get
> oVirt where it needs to be so that you can use it for your clients.
> 
> Be a contributor and not just a consumer.  Asking on list "when will
> everyone else do the work so I can benefit" is not the Open Source
> way :)
> 
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