Good news for SOGo 6?

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Interesting news today.

Jamespot has acquired Alinto, a French company working on email and SOGo. I think this could be good news for SOGo 6, which is currently taking shape.

A new version. A new stack. A lot of work ahead.

Let’s see what happens next. I’m looking forward to it!

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The usual foreign openness from a French company: if you don’t speak french, you’re not worth our time. And for a collaborative platform (with a sub-optimal italian translation webpage) this speaks quite loud: domestic (France, probably also Belgium) market is far more interesting than international.

I have zero experience or knowledge about Jamespot platform, however as a collaborative suite a powerful enough email client should be a necessory (I’m expecting that calendar is already a pivot point of the product).

So… why buy a company that’s releasing a publicly available product, instead of adopting it without having the hassle of managing the developers?

I feel the “sovreinity” of the software as a key selling point, but I’m asking myself if simply… Jamespot will drop the support on SoGo and request to former Alinto employees to write an internal and non-opensource version of the groupware.

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I don’t know Jamespot, so I can’t really say what they will do.

But I met the Alinto team at FOSDEM, and they really looked like open source people to me.

Alinto took over SOGo when Inverse, the Canadian company, stopped pushing it forward. They have been carrying the project for several years now.

Of course, we have all seen companies being acquired and projects being killed afterwards.

Let’s see what happens.

But honestly, I don’t feel too worried about this one

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Obviously there’s no other option, currently.

But now Alinto is not calling shots anymore… I respect your opinion about the developers and the former company, being suspicious on the current one seems not the worst idea for me.

I mean…

Apple did not bought CUPS, right?
Or IBM RedHat?
Oracle for MySQL…

ElasticSearch, Terraform, Redis.

I don’t know why my feeling in the SourceForce is so reminding me about the Closed Side…