Would xymon survive?

There is an application that college universities use that is
developed by one person.  VMPLS I believe is the name.

On 12/12/08, Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Friday 12 December 2008, michael nemeth wrote:

I gave I high successful  Xymon presentation that got me management
support to have it evaluated by
a larger group of people . Actually the management support was very strong
!

One Sysadmin, expressed the worry that since xymon is basic a one
programmer product what
would happen if Henrik could no  longer support  it.   I  told them
about  the  movement  for
more than one programer to support it via the Subversion archive on
Sourceforge,

Still if Henrik was gone would some one support it? Would Henrik company
allow  outsider
to maintain it.  Ok, in other words would xymon survive?

There is no "Henrik company".  Of course, there is a company that pays
Henrik
and Henrik is allowed to work on xymon.  But if Henrik stops developing
xymon, somebody will step in (I'm willing to do) and start developing.  Why?

Because the product is too good to let it die.

As an aside I ran across a free product yesterday (don't remember what)
that would sell
a commercial license , that was basically a disclaimed for commpany that
just HAD to
have commercial licenses.   Might not be a bad idea Henrik?

Selling a commercial license means nothing.  I'm willing to sell you a
license
so you can use xymon and as a bonus, I give you the source code for free!
The problem with commercial licenses is that if you sell a license, you are
expected to deliver also support.  And one person alone can not do this.


Stef

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