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News and Announcements / Re: Zentyal 4.0 Roadmap Published!
« on: July 29, 2014, 06:51:33 pm »
I guess I am quite worried about the changes in the 4.0 Roadmap.
I have been using Zentyal for a number of my customers (Solicitors, Warehouse, 1 Independant school) and for me it is a simple one stop shop office infrastructure in a box solution.
With the announcement of removing features like RADIUS and webserver and Webmail roundcube... I am thinking what will be next?
Granted only 2 of my clients uses roundcube and mail but a large number of the small start ups i work with work are in rented offices with a rented internet service and use cloud based email services like office 365 or GIACOM and a nearly all of them use the webserver and RADIUS.
They have no need or want to host their internal mail server for a small number of accounts and are happy with using cloud. Only one of the solicitors I am working with now is growing into their own premises and now have budget to bring in email internally from the cloud and have their own elastix solution.
I typically offer solutions like pfsense for firewall RADIUS etc, asterix or elastix for comms, freenas etc initally but a number of these small start ups have very limited budgets and resources they always pick zentyal.
With Zentyal I can design build and test all the features a client needs in a fraction of time keeping costs lower. Every client who is a new starter (Under 10 users) have always picked zentyal first. I can typically get a majority of what they need built out in Zentyal in a less than a day which in turn kept my costs low. Zentyal allows me to offer my services for free to build an infrastructure for a local charity that needed help.
My clients who are not IT savvy just want to do what they do best and have IT empower them not restrict them. They don't want to understand IT they just want everything to work and zentyal made this easy.
My clients typically want:
Backups
Firewall when a DLINK router just does not cut it
Domain Logins
VPN (Life saver for a director on holiday)
Website (Internal/External)
File and Print Share
Messaging
"Cheaper phone Calls"
Zentyal helped me do this.
I am currently about to spend over £400 for the ZECA Zentyal courses and exam but this recent announcement has got rethinking this.
Out of all the small and new business I have come across that are looking for solid IT without paying the earth I have not come across any using outlook 2003 or 2007.
Its bizarre this change as I really thought Zentyal have nailed it with 3.2 for any start up that doesn't have the budgets but want to do things right and cost effectively from the beginning and when the company grows can easily segment these services from the "one box" when the budgets and requirements expand.
I will give 4.0 daily a test and see how it goes . I could be worrying over nothing here.
Zentyal offers so much and I understand supporting it is a massive demand but I wouldn't mind waiting longer for a new release with "all in it" instead of more frequent releases with less. Look at SME server they take years !
I have been using Zentyal for a number of my customers (Solicitors, Warehouse, 1 Independant school) and for me it is a simple one stop shop office infrastructure in a box solution.
With the announcement of removing features like RADIUS and webserver and Webmail roundcube... I am thinking what will be next?
Granted only 2 of my clients uses roundcube and mail but a large number of the small start ups i work with work are in rented offices with a rented internet service and use cloud based email services like office 365 or GIACOM and a nearly all of them use the webserver and RADIUS.
They have no need or want to host their internal mail server for a small number of accounts and are happy with using cloud. Only one of the solicitors I am working with now is growing into their own premises and now have budget to bring in email internally from the cloud and have their own elastix solution.
I typically offer solutions like pfsense for firewall RADIUS etc, asterix or elastix for comms, freenas etc initally but a number of these small start ups have very limited budgets and resources they always pick zentyal.
With Zentyal I can design build and test all the features a client needs in a fraction of time keeping costs lower. Every client who is a new starter (Under 10 users) have always picked zentyal first. I can typically get a majority of what they need built out in Zentyal in a less than a day which in turn kept my costs low. Zentyal allows me to offer my services for free to build an infrastructure for a local charity that needed help.
My clients who are not IT savvy just want to do what they do best and have IT empower them not restrict them. They don't want to understand IT they just want everything to work and zentyal made this easy.
My clients typically want:
Backups
Firewall when a DLINK router just does not cut it
Domain Logins
VPN (Life saver for a director on holiday)
Website (Internal/External)
File and Print Share
Messaging
"Cheaper phone Calls"
Zentyal helped me do this.
I am currently about to spend over £400 for the ZECA Zentyal courses and exam but this recent announcement has got rethinking this.
Out of all the small and new business I have come across that are looking for solid IT without paying the earth I have not come across any using outlook 2003 or 2007.
Its bizarre this change as I really thought Zentyal have nailed it with 3.2 for any start up that doesn't have the budgets but want to do things right and cost effectively from the beginning and when the company grows can easily segment these services from the "one box" when the budgets and requirements expand.
I will give 4.0 daily a test and see how it goes . I could be worrying over nothing here.
Zentyal offers so much and I understand supporting it is a massive demand but I wouldn't mind waiting longer for a new release with "all in it" instead of more frequent releases with less. Look at SME server they take years !
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