Hi Bill: This is sad news. I've mentioned EnterpriseLibre at a couple of user groups I participate in, and had hoped the project would be better recognized that it is. I'm forwarding your message to the Free Software mailing lists I subscribe to. Perhaps this will generate a bit of interest. --Bob. On 2016-10-01 12:26 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
Hi, our vision was that FOSS needed to be used by a critical mass to thrive, and that meant it needed to be complete, powerful, and easy. So we integrated the first truly full-stack FOSS solution, servers to apps, with virtual desktops so anyone could use it anywhere. I still believe this is the key need to spread FOSS to a critical mass. It solves all the problems. A full description of the system, advantages, architecture etc. can be found in the System Description: https://wiki.enterpriselibre.org/images/c/c5/EnterpriseLibre-System-Descript...
Can I recommend you keep a copy of that document in case the future ever calls, and someone wants to relaunch a complete FOSS solution? It has ten years of intellectual value in it.
For the EnterpriseLibre project will be closing down by the end of the month. If you want to grab a copy of the working system, for a local server or AWS, please do so soon from https://wiki.enterpriselibre.org/index.php/Development
The last version can not only support a team with an IT solution better than most onsite, it can create additional solutions for other teams at a click. Almost alive, nearly self-aware ;-)
I tried getting hosters interested in it - a full FOSS competitor to Google Apps and Office 365 - better, more secure, more apps, and real virtual desktops available anywhere! But no luck. Open source hosters are few and far between.
I also tried getting the FOSS community to run with it. But people are busy. It's a big, complicated system. Made simple for users. But lives are full. I understand that.
EnterpriseLibre influenced the present, and may someday help shape the future. As the proprietary systems tighten their grip on our privacy, wallets, and freedom a little more every day, there may come a time when someone with the resources to launch this again, and grow it, will want to free more than the individual, and provide software freedom to teams, non-profits, and small organizations of all types, pick this back up, and make it even better. The code will always be on GitHub. By an order of magnitude in software power, FOSS or closed, there is no other solution like it available anywhere else in the world today.
May your tomorrows ripen into everything they should be. Stay strong. Ride the long wave. The universe is unfolding - with all its fits and starts - exactly as it should.
Cheers! Bill
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