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It's not been officially anounced yet, but today Backbase released a new version of the Community Edition of our software. This upgrade (version 3.0.1) is not only a technical improvement (more about that later) but also features new and better documentation and (by public demand) a friendly-priced commercial version.

Documentation

Not a lot of interesting stuff to say about this; the technical documentation should now be complete and correct. I know the R&D team has also been really busy with some very, very cool demo's but I don't know if that has made it to this release. I'll keep you posted about that.

Commercial version

This is quite interesting. Backbase now offers a Shared Hosting Edition for 'smaller' web projects. This is what our website has to say about it:

The Shared Hosting Edition can be used if your website runs on a shared web server. If you use dedicated servers you can use the Standard Edition.

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You are eligible for the Shared Hosting License if your website is installed on a Shared Web Server:

• that is (commercially) available for multiple and unrelated Customers;
• on which multiple Customers have installed their websites,
• on which there is less than 1 CPU per Customer,

Price? According to the website: € 800,- per website. Definitely a lot cheaper than the Standard Edition (€ 4800,- per CPU/year)! Hopefully this will enable lots of people to use Backbase software in their commercial web projects, although I personally believe this will probably be too expensive for many developers in countries outside of the U.S. and Western Europe.

Technical improvements

Besides a couple of bug fixes (I'm not sure if these are captured in a public document) it features new controls (and improvements on old ones) and a major improvement on the s:htmlstructure-tag. This improvement is in fact so good (I was subjected to an jaw-dropping demonstration about it today) that I will dedicate one of the next posts to it.