Commercial licensing

Oryx uses a «dual licensing» business model. Its software is available both as Open Source and on commercial terms. This enables us to offer a better product to more people, on terms that benefit different groups.

The Open Source license is interesting to Unix power users and self-reliant unix administrators. It does not include any warranty, and support by Oryx is available only as time permits. Customization is possible, but new versions of Archiveopteryx may break any customization, and any customization is bound by the licensing requirements (in short, your work has to be open source).

Commercial customers have more flexibility:

Distribution within or beyond the customer is hassle-free.
Oryx can provide customization and integration, including automated testing and migration to future versions.
Oryx provides support and can also provide consulting.
The commercial contract guarantees that Archiveopteryx works as described in the user manual.
There is no need to publish anything as open source.

Most ASPs, resellers and organizations with several offices benefit from a commercial contract. If you plan to build a substantial mail archive or integrate the mail archive with other databases, we also strongly suggest getting a commercial contract.

If you would like an assessment of your needs and how we can help you, please send email to info@oryx.com.

In case of questions, please write to info@oryx.com.

Relevant links

Contact Oryx.
Open Source licensing.
Overview of Archiveopteryx.

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Last modified: 2007-12-01
Location: aox.org/commercial