Monday, 18 December 2006
Aggressive 1.0-M7 release schedule
« Our bad - minor patch for MySQL | Main | All Hail the Elephant Build »We are hard working guys here at Buni. Some of us are working into the holiday. Take a look at the next release issues. We aim to have at least a build with these in by Jan 21, if not the formal 1.0-M7 release. We aim to have 1.0 out by the end of 2007Q1.
I'm most excited about the Administration system. I find working on that provides me with the most excitement because I know how important it is for our users. A few years back when I envisioned the project, there were no other players on the market. Now we see wannabe after wannabe. They make a pretty webmail in javascript, slap a bunch of junk on top of postfix, take a bunch of VC money and brag in Businessweek on how well "they" scale. I've heard quite a bit of anecdotal evidence that they don't scale so well, in fact if you use any of their "cool" stuff...it doesn't scale at all. This is why blowing all your R&D on your COOL AJAX Web 2.0, might get you a lot of VC cash but doesn't serve the customer very well. Sure postfix scales. However, now you're short the rest of the bare minimum to be called groupware! Anyhow I tried installing/configuring their product and whoa it made me feel stupid. That is why Meldware had an installer from nearly the beginning and we will have a bang up easy to use GUI administration system before we DARE call it 1.0-final. Yes...email does suck! Let's make it better. However slapping webmail on top of postfix and a bungled heap of web services crap isn't enough to do that...get real!
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Best wishes for
Christmas & Forthcomming New Year 2007
For you , the entire team Members Working on this project & also for entire open source community
All the best for You & Entire team for 1.0M7 release
prashanth