Enonic announces subscription pricing for Enonic CMS

19/04/2010 08:21Enonic starts adoption to the Open Source Business Model for its current CMS product suite. Thus Enonic becomes one of the very first, pure Norwegian software houses to to convert its revenue stream from license based revenues to support based revenues.

Enonic introduces its Subscription Pricing model for its top of the line product, Enonic CMS. The pricing structure is based on Java nodes (one Java Virtual Machine - JVM) with a choice of support options - Silver, Gold or Platinum - is available. Silver support is covered by the base price and gold or platinum may be ordered by adding 20% or 50% respectively to the annual price. A non-production node is priced at 50% of the production node.

The main price differentiators are:

• Reaction time down to 3 hours
• Support coverage up to 24/7
• Support channel from web to personal contact
• Access and availability of support staff other than for software bugs

The offering allows the customer to use the software as specified in a license agreement and get full access to all new versions and bug fixes. With the subscription agreement a customer will be charged a full year non-refundable support fee when signing the agreement. After the initial 12 month period the customer will be invited to renew the agreement for one year at a time.

"The main benefits for the customer lies in a very simple and predictable "grow as you need" cost structure. It offers flexibility to a variety of customer needs and will offer more perceivable return on investment", says Haakon Skaarer, CEO at Enonic. This will hopefully make it easier to realize potential customers aggressive web ambitions as we will allow them to convert or start based on a full function world class CMS platform without having to spend a big portion of their budget for an expensive traditional software license. "Enonic's offering will allow customers to start at a modest price and then expand as the web applications gets deployed, becomes more critical to business and requires better support or capacity", adds Morten Øien Eriksen, VP Product Management at Enonic.

Enonic lives up to its vision: "Extreme flexibility"

With this offering Enonic offers clients extreme flexibility; financially, functionally and capacitywise. Enonic anticipates that this offering will spur demand for solutions based on Enonic CMS and bring more projects to our highly competent network of implementation partners.

As a part of this announcement, Enonic reveals the next concrete steps towards becoming a full blown open source vendor. "Today we will open our online community - with product documentation, user forum, tutorials, updates, whitepapers and various downloads. Our next step will be to open source all standard modules, compliant with the current release of Enonic CMS", says Thomas Sigdestad, CTO at Enonic.

Beside these efforts, Enonic is already an active contributor to major Open Source efforts: Apache JackRabbit (JSR 170/283 content repository), Apache Felix (OSGI container), TinyMCE (HTML editor) and Google Closure (Javascript tools). It is also worth noticing that Enonic's current software already utilizes more than 50 different open source components.