Varien Launch Magento Enterprise Edition
Varien yesterday launched a new enterprise version of Magento, interestingly many regular users of the forum will note that a lot of the additional functionality included in this new version is what ‘community edition’ users have been crying out for, particularly the ability to limit catalog access to certain customers (I assume on a group basis) by category or globally across stores.
I think it will be interesting to see in the coming months if any of the enterprise functionality makes it into Magento Connect, be it on an open source or commercial license. This would give community edition users the opportunity to ‘bolt on’ enterprise features.
At a cost of $8,900 a year, I think it will be interesting to see if Varien can continue to keep the Enterprise Edition significantly ahead of the Community Edition in the coming months and what other value added services they will be offering with it.
I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on the new edition.
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Stephen on April 17th, 2009
Normally when this kind of stuff happens all of the effort goes into the ‘enterprise’ edition in order to make it more attractive to people. But of course, folks who would use an open source e-commerce system would only do so for two reasons 1) because they don’t have the capital / money for a 10,000 a year license or 2) because they need the actual source code because they plan on customizing heavily. Both of these are obviated by closed source “enterprise editions”.
Magentos only saving grace is that it is reasonably feature competitive with other similarly priced e-commerce software, so they can probably upsell their more successful open-source customers. Otherwise I see MySQL in their future.