Please elaborate on future of jmix platform in light of sanctions on RU

Hi Julius,

This is sad times and valid concerns. Let me try to answer:

First of all, Jmix is distributed by a British company Haulmont Technology Limited everywhere in the world except Russia. Haulmont Technology has a contract with a Russian partner company managing our development offices, but otherwise it is completely independent. Also, we will likely move part of the Jmix team outside of Russia in the short term to ensure uninterrupted support of all Jmix customers.

Neither Haulmont nor its Russian partner have control or ownership relations with Sber or any other Russian entity. The Russian partner is providing Sber development services under a commercial contract, which does not violate any sanctions to date.

With this in mind, there are no grounds for GitHub to disconnect our projects. In any scenario, we are committed to keeping Jmix open source and publicly available as it is now.

We are also fully committed to the roadmap and long-term future of Jmix and this is not affected. We are investing in global sales and marketing as well as R&D and we hope to see Jmix customer base grow.

Meanwhile, Haulmont Technology is considering further legal and organizational steps to guarantee uninterrupted services to all our customers. We are a 500+ staff development house with a global customer base and we have sufficient resources to manage this situation.

I hope this helps, but feel free to ask more questions and I will try to elaborate.

P.S. I appreciate your support and the “no politics” approach! This is so much needed these days.

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