High availability ... again

[Ken Murchison]

Kevin Baker wrote:
> Fair enough ;)
> 
> So what would it cost to have this feature implemented?
> 
> Specifically adding the application level redundancy patch
> that was submitted.
> 
> I think it is certainly worth discussion if nothing else
> to see if it is something we, people interested, might
> collectively be able to pay for.
> 
> Actually a pretty interesting topic... maybe more suited
> for a general Slashdot thread. Paying for open source
> dev.. I think there was something on that recently.

Its not unheard of, in fact its been done for Cyrus before.  I was paid 
a rather large sum by a semiconductor company to implement the 
altnamespace feature, and Fastmail.fm has contracted me for several 
features, most recently almost all of the new stuff in 2.3.

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