[OOTB-hive] Status update

[Boriss Mejias]

On 8 August 2014 15:22, David Webster <david.webster at alfresco.com> wrote:

>
>  On 8 Aug 2014, at 13:47, Oksana Kurysheva <okurysheva at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I thought about this collision of interest. As it was several years ago:
> Alfresco built an ecosystem around Alfresco Enterprise. And it was a
> feature. There was no ecosystem around Community. All tries of creating an
> ecosystem were killed by Alfresco Inc. because it was a collision of
> interests. But now Alfresco is too enterprise to see a threat in our Order.
> Yes, we want to build a small ecosystem around Alfresco Community. But we
> are on the different markets with Alfresco Inc. and we don't want to earn
> money on this "building". We just want to make easier to use Alfresco
> Community edition and free extensions, to find a freelancer for small
> companies who will never pay to Alfresco Inc. And existence of the Order is
> still a good free marketing for Alfresco. Do you agree with me? Any
> comments from Richard, David, other Alfresco employees? I hope that Doug
> and Alfresco Sales understand this position.
>
>
>  Personally, I don't see how the Community Edition can be a threat to
> Enterprise sales - as far as I can see, the size of organisations that
> would consider Community and the size we're targeting for Enterprise aren't
> likely to have much overlap. As Alfresco grows, that overlap gets smaller.
> If the Community can increase the buzz around Alfresco in general and
> provide feedback that helps us continue producing a stable, extensible
> platform then I'd say it can only help sales.
>

OK with this. But is this really the opinion of sales? or the opinion of
Alfresco management? are they really convinced about this? Do they see
community edition only as a "trial" or "evaluation" of enterprise edition?


>
>  The office hours session with Doug should be a good opportunity to get
> feedback from him on topics such as this.
>

Indeed. I'll try to summarized a list of questions for next office hours.
It's a very important opportunity to understand what the community should
expect from Alfresco in the mid and long term.

cheers
Boriss


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>  David.
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