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BEA to Provide Free Development Licenses (24 messages)
- Posted by: Dion Almaer
- Posted on: March 03 2003 10:17 EST
Threaded Messages (24)
- BEA to Provide Free Development Licenses by Eric Ma on March 03 2003 11:46 EST
- clustering? by red red on March 03 2003 12:23 EST
- clustering? by Nick Minutello on March 03 2003 12:29 EST
- Developer seats are free by Frank Cohen on March 03 2003 12:28 EST
- Developer seats are free by Steve Lewis on March 03 2003 12:53 EST
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Developer seats are free by Venkatesh Srinivasan on March 03 2003 02:22 EST
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Developer seats are free by Vic Cekvenich on March 03 2003 02:29 EST
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Developer seats are free by Samuel Ballew on March 05 2003 01:08 EST
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Developer seats are free by George de la Torre on March 05 2003 08:25 EST
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Developer seats are free by Samuel Ballew on March 06 2003 12:30 EST
- Developer seats are free by George de la Torre on March 06 2003 07:57 EST
- Developer seats are free by Cameron Purdy on March 06 2003 12:07 EST
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Developer seats are free by Samuel Ballew on March 06 2003 12:30 EST
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Developer seats are free by George de la Torre on March 05 2003 08:25 EST
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Developer seats are free by Samuel Ballew on March 05 2003 01:08 EST
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Developer seats are free by Vic Cekvenich on March 03 2003 02:29 EST
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Developer seats are free by Venkatesh Srinivasan on March 03 2003 02:22 EST
- Developer seats are free by Steve Lewis on March 03 2003 12:53 EST
- Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free? by Jim Livingston on March 03 2003 17:34 EST
- Re:Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free? by Dmitry Namiot on March 03 2003 23:54 EST
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Cool by Scott McNealy on March 04 2003 12:17 EST
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Container Source Code by Christopher Wells on March 04 2003 12:51 EST
- Impact on small scale vendors by Mike Adams on March 04 2003 04:15 EST
- Container Source Code by Robert Brown on March 05 2003 07:03 EST
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Container Source Code by Christopher Wells on March 04 2003 12:51 EST
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Re:Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free? by Ray Harrison on March 04 2003 07:34 EST
- JBoss by Christopher Wells on March 04 2003 08:02 EST
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Cool by Scott McNealy on March 04 2003 12:17 EST
- Re:Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free? by Dmitry Namiot on March 03 2003 23:54 EST
- This non-production license supports up to 5 concurrent IP conne by Bob Baller on March 04 2003 15:56 EST
- This non-production license supports up to 5 concurrent IP conne by Ray Harrison on March 05 2003 07:49 EST
- doesn't development license have weblogic portal ebcc tool by kirupakaran seshachalam on March 05 2003 07:36 EST
- doesn't development license have weblogic portal ebcc tool by Nick Minutello on March 05 2003 09:54 EST
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BEA to Provide Free Development Licenses[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Eric Ma
- Posted on: March 03 2003 11:46 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
Not a bad move. BEAS definitely needs to keep the developers happy. I just downloaded WebLogic Platform 8.1 Beta and the license is good till next year. I wonder whether it is the same for the older products. -
clustering?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: red red
- Posted on: March 03 2003 12:23 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
does the license on the trial edition include clustering? -
clustering?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Nick Minutello
- Posted on: March 03 2003 12:29 EST
- in response to red red
does the license on the trial edition include clustering?
From what I see in the license file: yes.
-Nick -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Frank Cohen
- Posted on: March 03 2003 12:28 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
At the opening session here at eWorld Tod Nielsen, Chief Marketing Officer for BEA said "Developer seats are free." When we walked out of the big hall they gave us a CD package that included the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. That's all of their software under one free development license. Good move BEA. -Frank -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Steve Lewis
- Posted on: March 03 2003 12:53 EST
- in response to Frank Cohen
They announced it last year, too. :) LOL
Steve -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Venkatesh Srinivasan
- Posted on: March 03 2003 14:22 EST
- in response to Steve Lewis
Seems Bea started understanding the market competition ..[BEA getting squeezed from both ends ???]
They should have done this long back. Anyway, better late than never. :-)
This is good for developers :-)
Cheers
--Venky -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Vic Cekvenich
- Posted on: March 03 2003 14:29 EST
- in response to Venkatesh Srinivasan
How long before they have run time $ and operation costs more competetive with Orion, Resin, Tomcat, J:Boss, etc.? IBM gives its J2EE license away to sell hardware on any larger deal. Oracle gives Orion away to sell the Oracle DB.
It is hard to run BEA when you need 10 servers web application.
.V -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Samuel Ballew
- Posted on: March 05 2003 01:08 EST
- in response to Vic Cekvenich
BEA's WebLogic Express, which is competitive with Orion, Resin, and Tomcat
is currently available for under $700 with online support at www.bea.com.
sam -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: George de la Torre
- Posted on: March 05 2003 08:25 EST
- in response to Samuel Ballew
BEA Weblogic Express is not like Orion or Resin. It's more like Tomcat with added features. Weblogic Express does not have a EJB container.
Well, finally a free developers version. Sorry guys, BEA already shot itself on the foot.
I'll never forget doing a prototype in Weblogic for a client and then have Weblogic license expire before the demo. I contacted BEA and informed them about a potential sale to a "large" customer. Forget it, BEA just treated like a street-beggar looking for a hand out.
I even discussed this with Tyler Jewel at last years Borland conference, Tyler was sympathetic and appeared concern. But, I could tell, Tyler just couldn't do anything.
Well, Borland Enterprise Server to the rescue and presto my client doesn't think Weblogic was so great after all.
Last year, I have successfully influenced the decision to not go Weblogic in four cases. Number five is in progress and its big.
So, thank you BEA for showing me the light, I've discovered other J2EE servers, JBoss, OC4J and Borland Enterprise Server.
Just because Weblogic developer version is free "now", all of sudden I'm not going to throw away of great support and experience from the other J2EE servers.
Too bad, I really liked and wanted to stay with Weblogic. -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Samuel Ballew
- Posted on: March 06 2003 00:30 EST
- in response to George de la Torre
Mistake on my part comparing WebLogic Express features with Orion and appearently Resin. Thanks for pointing that out. Resin is not full J2EE, correct? I'm not clear on their story.
When your WLS license expired, why didn't you just do another download from BEA to get a license refresh?
sam -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: George de la Torre
- Posted on: March 06 2003 07:57 EST
- in response to Samuel Ballew
<Sammy>
Resin is not full J2EE, correct? I'm not clear on their story
The "Resin" version is a servlet engine, while the "Resin Enterprise" supports EJB. I only knew about the enterprise version, so you're correct Resin is like Weblogic Express.
<Sammy>
When your WLS license expired, why didn't you just do another download from BEA to get a license refresh?
Well, yes I could, but just the fact of getting downloads to sustain licensing is silly. We had other application servers sitting around with active licenses.
Also, we had several deployments in different geographical places, imagine trying to always download and uninstall and reinstall over and over again.
And, finally, support from BEA, reminded me from the Wang days - Awful! -
Developer seats are free[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Cameron Purdy
- Posted on: March 06 2003 12:07 EST
- in response to George de la Torre
I even discussed this with Tyler Jewel at last years Borland conference, Tyler was sympathetic and appeared concern. But, I could tell, Tyler just couldn't do anything.
I think Tyler has been one of the instrumental people in getting BEA to give away developer licenses.
You have to look at it (at least for a second) from their perspective: Before doing this, BEA used to get more revenue from developer licenses than many app server companies got in total revenue!
I think it's pretty obvious that "free developer licenses for an app server" is a good thing, both for BEA and its customers. BEA is playing with the big boys now, and part of that (as Microsoft and IBM understand fairly well) is encouraging and growing a developer community.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
Coherence: Easily share live data across a cluster! -
Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jim Livingston
- Posted on: March 03 2003 17:34 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
So, develop with weblogic, use the jboss migrator thingy to change your wls deployment descriptors to jboss, then deploy to jboss.
Is that reasonable? -
Re:Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dmitry Namiot
- Posted on: March 03 2003 23:54 EST
- in response to Jim Livingston
And all the manuals for WL are free with the excellent quality. Looks like tough time for JBoss ?
Dmitry Namiot
Coldbeans - Java server-side components -
Cool[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Scott McNealy
- Posted on: March 04 2003 00:17 EST
- in response to Dmitry Namiot
Hi,
Since you are giving away free dev licenses, how about the source code of your Container?
Just wondering,
Scott -
Container Source Code[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Christopher Wells
- Posted on: March 04 2003 00:51 EST
- in response to Scott McNealy
<snip> Hi,Since you are giving away free dev licenses, how about the source code of your Container?
Perhaps this may be true for small J2EE vendors and the viability of those folks remaining in business may be a '?'...especially those esoteric non-US based companies without any mentionable market share..
- Manoj Shirke -
Impact on small scale vendors[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mike Adams
- Posted on: March 04 2003 04:15 EST
- in response to Christopher Wells
"Perhaps this may be true for small J2EE vendors and the viability of those folks remaining in business may be a '?'...especially those esoteric non-US based companies without any mentionable market share.."
Are the possible ones, Tmax, Trifolk, Pramati?
Heard that Tmax Soft though being small from Korea has a very strong market in Asia.Many Korean giants listed as their customers http://www.tmax.co.kr/english/partner1.htm
Not much activity seen in others website though
-- Robert Black Junior -
Container Source Code[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Robert Brown
- Posted on: March 05 2003 07:03 EST
- in response to Christopher Wells
Not a bad idea at all...its actually a good survival
As for manoj shirke...oh come on, appreciate what others have done, and what you perhaps can never ever achieve...you lose your credibility with others being focussed on a single theme!!! specially a lot of developers in India
"esoteric non-us companies" - as if there are many...
RK
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Re:Develop on WebLogic - Deploy to JBoss - all for free?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ray Harrison
- Posted on: March 04 2003 07:34 EST
- in response to Dmitry Namiot
I've been doing a fair amount of work lately with the JBoss 3.2 release (I believe it sits at RC2 right now) and I've been very impressed. I am very much looking forward to the 4.0 release later this year. Their manuals aren't too bad either, and the price for them is minimal. Personally, I don't think it's going to be tough times for JBoss.
Cheers
Ray -
JBoss[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Christopher Wells
- Posted on: March 04 2003 08:02 EST
- in response to Ray Harrison
//Their manuals aren't too bad either, and the price for them is minimal. Personally, I don't think it's going to be tough times for JBoss//
Absolutely. Perhaps JBoss can be a better consideration as against the J2EE platforms sold by small vendors especially those charging hefty prices of $2000 + per CPU for basic editions and with whom one cannot take the risk of depending on specific platforms,losing their support and upgrades as in today's market it is going to be survival of the fittest. -
This non-production license supports up to 5 concurrent IP conne[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Bob Baller
- Posted on: March 04 2003 15:56 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
: This non-production license supports up to 5 concurrent IP connections and 15 concurrent database connections.
Note: All developer versions have the above limit yet it's not obvious. It's nice to see a Weblogic Express type price for developers.
As for annoying people who keep posting about JBoss and Open Source everytime they see Weblogic or WebSphere mentioned, please don't turn this site in /. -
This non-production license supports up to 5 concurrent IP conne[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ray Harrison
- Posted on: March 05 2003 07:49 EST
- in response to Bob Baller
It is a perfectly reasonable response to mention JBoss when there is a discussion of Weblogic or Websphere. JBoss can certainly be a valid alternative to either, depending upon the scope of the project.
I'm glad that BEA has finally gotten to the point where they think a free development version is a good idea - it has taken them quite a while to do so. Getting your product into the hands of developers is a very good idea. I know that quite a few shops weren't spending the money on WL development licenses and were using app servers like JBoss, Orion/OC4J, JRun or a host of other products that are free period or free for development. Then deploy to WL. Sometimes those same shops might think - "What do I need WL for anyway?" and run their production software on the cheaper of those products listed above. This move will help WL shops stay WL shops. To at least a small extent - JBoss was a driver in getting BEA to pony up free development licenses, certainly along with the other app server vendors who offered free development licenses for their products.
Cheers
Ray -
doesn't development license have weblogic portal ebcc tool[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: kirupakaran seshachalam
- Posted on: March 05 2003 07:36 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
Hi,
I trying to use weblogic 8.0 development license. I am searching for ebcc tool for developing some sample portal application. But couldn't find. Isn't ebcc tool provided with weblogic 8.0 development license.
One more thing. I could see weblogic portal sample application beign developed with struts framework. Is weblogic portal supporting struts framework application plugin. I remember IBM now allows that.
-Kirupakaran.S -
doesn't development license have weblogic portal ebcc tool[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Nick Minutello
- Posted on: March 05 2003 09:54 EST
- in response to kirupakaran seshachalam
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| I am searching for ebcc tool
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Ebcc doesnt exist anymore. Its all in WorkShop
-Nick