Community Edition Licensing

[robchoi]

Hi,

My company is planning to start using Scalix CE. We would like to know if we go beyond the 25 free enterprise users covered by the CE, can we just purchase additional enterprise license we need, without having to upgrade to enterprise edition. Thanks.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

you will have to upgrade to Enterprise Edition, which is a seamless upgrade.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[R1200GS]

Does that mean that if you need 50 "enterprise" users you must purchase a 50 user enterprise package??

[ScalixSupport]

Yes, this is the case.

Our licensing model is on a per-user basis above 25 users. So, if you have 25 users on Community Edition, you need to pay for the whole 50 on Enterprise Edition.

Cheers

Dave.

[robchoi]

I just want to clarify this further. Say, if I have 100 users using the CE edition, 25 of them is enterprise users and the rest are regular users. If I need to add one more enterprise users, I'll have to upgrade whole 100 users to enterprise edition !? If this is the case, can I split the users onto two servers. One server with CE the other is Enterprise edition without loosing any functionalities nor integrations?

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

not sure if I am the expert in clarity, but I'll try ;-)

You do NOT need to buy 100 enterprise users. You will need to buy 25 Enterprise users PLUS a license extension pack which comes in 25 users units.

You CANNOT split the user base amongst two servers, CE is SINGLE SERVER ONLY.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[robchoi]

I would like to further my question.

My users are split into multiple independent domains. Will I be able to accomodate them all under the same machine so that each domain is totally separated from other domains. Users in one domain will not realize the existence of the other domains. Is this doable with Scalix? Thanks.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

there is no strict separation of domains on one Scalix server. So users will be able to "see" users on other domains because they will appear in the address book. You would need to setup multiple instances of Scalix (more details about that to be announced later).

Any sales questions, I'd be happy to put you in touch with the folks.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[florian]

Actually, being a bit closer to sales, let me clarify this...

1. Community edition is strictly single-server, single-instance and has a maximum of 25 (free) enterprise users

2. Enterprise edition is inherently multi-server, is multi-instance capable (supported from Scalix 10 onwards), has enhanced exchange-interoperability features, can be used as the basis for a wireless email solution based on the NotifyLink product by Notify, can be deeply integrated with active-directory, etc. Enterprise edition requires licensing of all enterprise users in the (potentially multi-server) environment at a per-user cost. In addition, it comes with unlimited community/standard users for free.

3, The minimum number of licensed users of EE is 25; above that, any number can be licensed, there is no stepping, so if you require 333 licenses, you can order that. The only thing is that if you extend your existing license, we request that the minumum extension size would be 10 users (actually this is strictly based on the cost of the actual transaction). If you want to extend your 333 user license by 222 users, resulting in a now-555-user license, that's fine - and a good idea! :-)

Think 777!

-- Florian.

[robchoi]

Thank you all for your prompt and detail replies. :)