[OpenAFS] the future

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Ted:

Is OpenAFS available unsupported?   Sure, download the code from
openafs.org and have a blast.

Pricing for YFS 1.0 has not been finalized.  It will not be available
for free.

Jeffrey Altman


On 10/1/2012 9:12 PM, Ted Creedon wrote:
> Is it available unsupported?
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> tedc
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> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Altman
> <jaltman@your-file-system.com <mailto:jaltman@your-file-system.com>> wr=
ote:
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>     On 9/30/2012 4:33 PM, Aaron Knister wrote:
>     > Regarding support, some type of subscription based model could go=

>     a long way. One if the reasons (other than frankly ignorance) that
>     OpenAFS was frowned upon at UMBC was our lack of commercial support=
=2E
>     I know there are entities that provide support but they seemed to
>     require more effort than clicking a button, selecting my
>     subscription type (X number of FileServers, Y number of "supported"=

>     clients, Z number of vldb servers, etc), and typing in a credit car=
d
>     number
>=20
>     I have always received a significant amount of pushback for any pri=
cing
>     model that is based upon # of servers and especially # of clients. =
 That
>     is why the YFSI pricing model is based upon number a number of supp=
ort
>     incidents.  It doesn't matter how many platforms you deploy or how =
many
>     servers or number of clients, support is driven by how much support=
 the
>     organization requires and whether support is U.S. business hours mo=
nday
>     to friday or 24/7/365.
>=20
>     Support packages start at US$4995 per year.
>=20
>     Jeffrey Altman
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