Bye Zarafa... bye Kopano?

kimokono81

+1 from me!
I’m running my own server for me and two family members… thats it. But I am forced to buy 5 licenses to run the server on a stable release.

I was running zcp community edition just fine before it got shut down, and switching to kopano core community edition didn’t really work out for me right now.

Hope you find a better solution for private/noncommercial users that fits our needs.

AnotherAndy

@fbartels Hi Felx,
do you have any News for us about the “private/non-commercial users” licence?
The last info is about 3 weeks old.
Best regards

As the topic starter I’m of course happy to see Kopano is considering private/non-commercial licenses, I can only hope these will be available soon.
So far I’m still running Zarafa, which is a fine product and still serves me well. But since I want to make the move to Debian 9, Kopano seems to be the way forward. I’ll keep a close eye on this topic to see if there is any news from the Kopano HQ…

fbartels

@gerald said in Bye Zarafa... bye Kopano?:

but it really is weird when a company makes their customers jump through a lot of hoops just to be able to pay for the software.

I just checked the email address associated to your user account and you are a registered partner and can easily buy subscriptions through the partner webshop. I still would not call a minimum order size of five “a lot of hoops”. Creating and collecting invoices has a price to it as well, as a business owner you should know that.

@kimokono81 @Merlin2104 @vco1 almost there, just need to create a signup form. I’m confident that we should have something by the end of the month.

Gerald

@fbartels said in Bye Zarafa... bye Kopano?:

I just checked the email address associated to your user account and you are a registered partner and can easily buy subscriptions through the partner webshop.
Creating and collecting invoices has a price to it as well, as a business owner you should know that.

Yes, and this is exactly the problem! Now you have to create and collect an invoice from me. And I have to create and collect an invoice from someone else. Twice the work, no benefit at all - I don’t want to be an unnecessary middleman :-)

mcostan

I use Kopano myself but, as I mentioned before, I am very happy to run with the community builds.

It really isn’t that much trouble! You download the packages, install them, run them, and if you are careful and you run them in a virtual machine first, you only upgrade when you find a stable version which, to be honest, in my experience it is 9 out of 10 the versions I get from the community site.

And of course since you don’t pay for it, in return if you find a bug you help Kopano to sort it out!

I do think it’s a fair and workable arrangement.

fixundfertig123

@fbartels +1 for the small private/non-commercial license. Just as @vco1 I am in the process of setting up new Kopano Server migrating my existing the Zarafa system. So I would really appreciate something happen in this direction.

fbartels

Hello to everyone in this thread! This thread has inspired us in creating a new “Kopano Contributor Edition”. Basically you provide feedback, keep your system up to date and when you see it fit tell the world how much you like Kopano and in exchange you get a subscription that you can use for private setups without any charge.

You can find more information at https://forum.kopano.io/topic/580/announcing-the-kopano-contributor-edition

xthbx

@fbartels said in Bye Zarafa... bye Kopano?:

Hello to everyone in this thread! This thread has inspired us in creating a new “Kopano Contributor Edition”. Basically you provide feedback, keep your system up to date and when you see it fit tell the world how much you like Kopano and in exchange you get a subscription that you can use for private setups without any charge.

You can find more information at https://forum.kopano.io/topic/580/announcing-the-kopano-contributor-edition

that’s so cool. As Zarafa home user it’s time now to move on to kopano.

Voting for it too. Looking for the same. Home/non-profit license just with access to repository and no support.