9-th anniversary, new prices, community edition and much more

Hello everybody!

Today we are celebrating the fact that 9 years ago the first version of the award-winning, revolutionary ORM named DataObjects.Net was released. Due to this we are launching our new edition & pricing policy, new customer area and we are hoping that you'll like it.

DataObjects.Net 4.5.4 final

The main change in this version in addition to all listed in RC 1 & RC 2 is Community edition support. Download it from official website or from NuGet repository.

Community edition

Many users requested Community Edition of DataObjects.Net with full set of features and with possible limitation of number of persistent types. Well, here it is, the Community edition is rolled out today. It has the following characteristics:

• The edition is absolutely free.
  
• Anyone can obtain it from our website.
  
• It contains 2 hardware licenses (means it can be installed onto 2 workstations at once).
  
• Number of persistent types is limited to 20.
  
• The license is issued for 1 year as regular licenses.
  

Obtain Community edition.

Professional edition

Professional edition is available for $150 and includes 2 hardware licenses. Comparing to the previous pricing scheme (500 euro), the price cutting is more than 65%. Moreover, 3 items are available for $120 each and 5 items - just for $100.

Get Professional edition.

Ultimate edition

Ultimate edition also gets its new shiny price, from now it is available only for $1500 instead of 2500 euros. The edition provides the unlimited number of hardware licenses. Ultimate edition contains access to the source code no more.

Get Ultimate edition.

Access to source code

We extracted 'Access to source code' feature to a separate package to make it available to all our customers, not only for Ultimate edition owners as it was earlier. So anyone, even an owner of Community edition has a chance to dive deep in DataObjects.Net white and black magic. The price for the package is set to $500. The source code is available in download area of our website.

Get access to source code.

New customer area

We are inviting you to the new customer area that we have built for you for better and easier license management. No more registration, we migrated to OpenID authentication scheme. We added license sharing feature, so your developers won't bother you with anything concerning licenses and hardware locks, you may share the license with all of them.

The area can be accesses by clicking on 'My Account' link in the main menu:

Soon you'll receive our invitation e-mail. We need you to log in the area to get your licenses associated with your account. Don't forget to periodically check your mailboxes!

Join the celebration! Thank you!

Links:

• Obtain community edition
  
• Get Professional/Ultimate edition
  
• Get access to source code
  
• Visit customer area
  

New DataObjects.Net order pages

According to announced pricing model, the following DataObjects.Net editions and prices are valid from today:


Links to order pages:

• DataObjects.Net Ultimate Edition
• DataObjects.Net Professional Edition (Primary License),  additional 1 / 5 / 10 Hardware Licenses
• DataObjects.Net Standard Edition (Primary License),  additional 1 / 5 / 10 Hardware Licenses
• DataObjects.Net Basic Edition (Primary License),  additional 1 / 5 / 10 Hardware Licenses

Upgrade subscription prolongation:

• For Professional and Ultimate Editions: order your primary license and necessary amount of hardware licenses with "DOUPGRADE2" coupon code (70% discount).
• For Basic and Standard Editions: order your primary license and necessary amount of hardware licenses with "DOUPGRADE1" coupon code (60% discount).

Other remarks:

• You should order one Primary License, and, optionally, any number of additional Hardware Licenses. Any Primary License already includes 3 prepaid Hardware Licenses in accordance with above table.
• All the order pages are secure.
• We provide 45-day money back guarantee.
• If earlier you already purchased any of our products, enter ''CUSTOMER" coupon code at the order page to get 15% discount for your new license. The discount is provided for Professional and Ultimate Editions of product, as well as for its hardware licenses.

License page will be updated in accordance with this information shortly.

DataObjects.Net editions and prices: upcoming changes

Update: final pricing model is already announced.

The following map defines new pricing model we're going to introduce in June\July:


We tried to develop a model with good balance between several factors:

• Our base prices must be comparable with key competitors; but final per-developer price must be lower.
• The model should be explicitely designed to maximize the price of each purchase; but options we offer should be anyway be more attractive from the point of full price in comparison to competitors.
• Since we're going to explicitly check hardware (HW) licenses, number of prepaid licenses must be determined basing on fact we provide 2 or 3 HW licenses for each developer: two for office and home PCs and one more - for CI/testing agent, if it is a team pack.
• There should be a cheap option for companies or persons that would like to try a product in action, or currently have just a single project where it can be used.

Licenses of existing customers will be upgraded by the following rules:

• Current Enterprise license will be upgraded to Ultmate edition;
• Current Personal license will be upgraded to Solo Professional edition;
• Any other license will be upgraded to Professional edition.

So most part of existing customers (owning SMB licenses) won't loose neither features, nor money (on yearly subscription prolongations). Since downgrades are free, customers with e.g. Internal license might decide to switch to a cheaper option later.

Any comments are welcome. This isn't final version, so your comments may affect on its final look.