[OpenAFS] the future

[Troy Benjegerdes]

Have you thought about what you can offer to SMB (small-medium businesses)

For instance, you charge $3.99 for the iYFS iDevice app.

What could you offer for $20/month? Would you let a third party resell 
iYFS to the SMB market, as long as you are getting the standard yearly
incident support rate from the reseller?

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:56:02PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> > tedc
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jeffrey Altman
> > <jaltman@your-file-system.com <mailto:jaltman@your-file-system.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     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.
> >     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 card
> >     number
> > 
> >     I have always received a significant amount of pushback for any pricing
> >     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 support
> >     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 monday
> >     to friday or 24/7/365.
> > 
> >     Support packages start at US$4995 per year.
> > 
> >     Jeffrey Altman
> > 
> > 
> > 
>