RE: [squid-users] Re: gzip

In researching for our squid implimentation their name/site came up quite a
few times. They have an extensive website offering a variety of appliance
type solutions plus they've done (are doing) open source projects as well. I
haven't dealt with them first hand, but I'd say they are real.

http://www.squid-cache.org/SPONSORS.txt lists them as a sponser of various
squid projects, and seeing that they are listed right on this
squid-cache.org page, that also lends credibility to them. Another place to
give you peace of mind is the
http://www.squid-cache.org/Support/services.html page, that lists
consultant/developers that you can contact if you are stuck. We took that
route, contacted a few on the list, and ended very happy with the outfit we
chose. What was good to hear was a few minor things had to be fixed or added
(I'm not sure if there's a difference) and the person I was dealing with
said he'd be submitting it to wherever it goes to be added into the official
version. While we had to pay to get a solution, hopefully the next person
does not have to struggle as much as we did.

Chris Perreault

-----Original Message-----
From: ohenry [mailto:squid@orangekids.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:17 PM
To: Adam Aube
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Re: gzip

> > Also Swell Technology claims to have such a patch up for ransom.
> > Does anyone know if their patch is for real and if it works as I
> > described above?
>
> No idea - never heard of the company. I don't know how much they're
> charging, but rather than purchasing that, you (and others who are
> interested) could instead invest the money in sponsoring a Squid
> developer to implement it in Squid proper.

They claim the patch works great and they haven't released it yet b/c squid
3.0 is in feature freeze. One of the engineers there told me they are going
to release it under the GPL once Squid 3.1 begins.

But they are asking for $400 to gain access to the pre-release patch.

http://swelltech.com/squidgzip/

So in theory it already exist and will be apart of Squid 3.1 very soon but
who knows if these guys are for real. I was really hoping people on this
list would know who they were...
Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 05:21:38 MDT