Is pricing available yet for CS2008?

Greetings

I haven't been able to find any details on CS2008 pricing as far as the options are concerned.

For example:

  - What will be the new price of maintenance?

  - What features are included vs. upgrades?

  - How many blogs / galleries / free movie tickets / etc are included in Professional?

The upgrade deadline is soon, will we know these things before then?

thanks,

g

Last time Teligent scare us to invest early and buy before price hiking - but this time this tactic does not work because the price is too high even before price hiking. It can not justify its price tag and lot of users left. So it may include a lot of bonus like increasing the number blogs / galleries / free movie tickets in CS2008 license i guess. Let's see. I think Teligent is still investigating the awkward situation and it takes time to come up something to fix their pricing structure.

Hi, for more information on pricing, please submit your inquiry at: http://communityserver.com/contact/sales/ or call 877-492-9484.

Burt Barnes

Hi, for more information on pricing, please submit your inquiry at: http://communityserver.com/contact/sales/ or call 877-492-9484.

The sales contact form isn't working, Is any way you can send me the price list?

Thanks 

Patrizio, I wish I could but its best to speak with a sales team member so they can identify your business needs and get you the right pricing. I will forward this along to the sales team, in the meantime I encourage you to call 877-492-9484.

Kinda silly to hide pricing from prospective clients isn't it?

bump

I write to Community Server, after few days telligent send me information about price (Professional Edition = 10 000$) ... ... ...

Full options of price I don't get from telligent ...

What happende to the pricing? I would like to advise our Company to use Communityserver based upon my pricing knowledge of CS 2007.

Pricing was acceptable, but right now the price has been multiplied by factor 10!!!

Old prices:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070202031617/communityserver.org/i/productsandpricing.aspx

New prices:
$10.000 per CPU, with a minimum of 2 CPU's

Why so much difference in pricing?
$1500 per server <> $20.000

youngB

What happende to the pricing? I would like to advise our Company to use Communityserver based upon my pricing knowledge of CS 2007.

Pricing was acceptable, but right now the price has been multiplied by factor 10!!!

Old prices:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070202031617/communityserver.org/i/productsandpricing.aspx

New prices:
$10.000 per CPU, with a minimum of 2 CPU's

Why so much difference in pricing?
$1500 per server <> $20.000

Looks like Telligent has let their new-found fame go to their head. Seriously, didn't the "little guy" help make Community Server what it is today? I'm sure that their success with MySpace and continued success with Microsoft is all great but your affordable prices in CS1.0-2007 is what made them popular. I contacted sales multiple times over the past two years with sales inquiries and the sales person has never helped me "identify your business needs and get you the right pricing" as Burt Barnes suggest... they don't even split up licensing if you want some parts of the software and not others.

The bottom line is for the "small guy" they have huge cookie cutter licenses filled with waste and they obviously have no intentions of "identify your business needs and get you the right pricing"... they're big and famous now and have their hands in corporations pockets... so screw the little guy. Funny, but they'll allow MySpace to buy only their forum but you have to buy the whole thing? Show me ONE other software company who's prices go up TEN FOLD in one release of their product. That's right, you can't...

The software is great, but at $20K I can imagine a large number of (potential) customers being scared off. We are now also looking at other options, such as a custom build on one of the open source frameworks. I believe it won't be long before other companies come with better priced offerings.

ok guys enough blasting me and the Telligent sales team ... lets get to a solution.

First, you cant pull up old web pages from back in the day and compare old versions of CS to the new platform... apples to oranges fellas. The last 2 releases have addressed/included feedback from our customers/community which enabled the feature set and functionality you see today. Its made the platform a truly integrated social computing tool for all sizes of organizations. agreed? Do you all like the way the platform is headed? If not fell free to provide feedback and we'll listen.

Now we are not kicking the small-medium sized companies aside... we do have a Pro license which is actually $5k not $10k. Again as we grow as a company and build out the platform to get you the tools you need to manage your community... guys that takes resources, we dont have 2 devs doing all the work like in the old days. Intell invested in us for a reason... a proven white-label platform with the vision and resources to make that happen.

Oh before i forget...business intelligence is vital to understanding the pulse of your community, so we have invested heavily in that... read blog: http://telligent.com/blogs/corporate/our-goal-is-to-provide-key-insight-to-drive-your-business-forward/

Thanx for this answer, I was not aware of a Pro license of $5k. I've had contact with the sales departement where I was told that the 'most-affordable' edition was starting at $20k($10k each cpu). Nobody told me about the pro license of $5k, why isn't this information  mentioned on the side?

Hi Burt,

Firstly, excellent that you guys participate in these threads, well done!

My comments here are hopefully taken as constructive criticism and not blasting :). While the software (and the direction you guys are taking it) is great, I don't believe that all small-medium sized companies can afford Community Server any more.

The $5k Pro license I believe refers to an annual license, which, when taking into account a 2 CPU minimum, translates to $10k per annum. A perpetual license is then $20k once-off (+ 15% annually for upgrades). European customers are even charged in Euros instead of Dollars, making it all the more pricy at present.

As a developer I'm impressed with your software, and I can easily impress my (prospective) customers with the demos of available functionality. However, I have a hard time convincing them that because CS makes my job easier, it is worth it for them to pay so much to license 2 CPU's when their single CPU server is so underutilized .

Some ideas:

• Licensing for single CPU without 2 CPU minimum, but then limited - e.g. non-upgradeable/ non-clusterable etc etc. let the little guys play as well
• License edition for single theme only - smaller companies may not need multiple themes to start with.
• Licensing starting with smaller communities (e.g. 5 groups instead of 25, less media galleries and blogs , limit on max members etc. etc.).

I believe you will compensate lost revenue as a result of cheaper licensing very quickly due to a lot more customers being able to afford it, and as they grow, so will their licensing needs.

Bart, can you clear up for me the question of a minmum of two licenses?

we do have a Pro license which is actually $5k not $10k. - by bart

is ther a 2 CPU minimum. I am asking here as no one from sales has returned my emails. Really at 20K a pop...you guys cant be that busy