On Jan 1, 12:14 pm, Rob Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Getting someone else to pay for your things is always a great first choice > ;-) But, the pricing model of IDEA has changed over time and I think many > people not currently using it have an erroneous assumption that it is "too > expensive" to even try it out. > > First, the community edition is FREE, both as in speech and beer. You can do > quite a lot in just the community edition. > > The "Ultimate Edition" adds lots of bells and whistles for enterprise > development. But even this is free (as in beer) for open source projects and > for educational/training/classroom use. $99 for students and teachers, and > $249 for a personal license to the whole thing. > > "Expensive" is a relative term, but let's be honest - $250 for a great tool > is not beyond the reach of most software developers, in any countries I am > aware of that have an established software engineering industry. > > Rob
Rob, I still think IntelliJ is too expensive for people whose companies won't pay for it. Community Edition is fine for desktop apps or libraries, but not web apps. Some people consider web development more significant than "bells and whistles for enterprise development." http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html I use IntelliJ because my company pays for it. Companies developing software should consider the pros and cons of buying IntelliJ licenses. $250 might not be "beyond the reach of most software developers" but by that logic should developers buy productivity boosters like better hardware and office furniture? I would suggest that $250 is not beyond the reach of most companies employing software developers. Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
