WebOS Apps Builder Feature Request: Amazon EC2 Integration Morfik to be presented at Firebird Conference 2006 in Prague!
Oct 20

Morfik recently announced to the participants of its Pioneers program, including me, its pricing&licensing plans for the Morfik WebOS AppsBuilder. The good news for everyone: there is a free version. The good news for Pioneers: there is significant discount for all participants in the Pioneer program. And you may still register as a Pioneer, and you will have two benefits: 1) significant discount of the Professional Edition and 2) A great tool for building Ajax applications the RAD way.”

I am glad with the licensing scheme “per developer” introduced; rather “per CPU” some other competitors have chosen. Also, there will be no other deployment costs!

Morfik Express edition is available FREE to those who have joined the Morfik Developers Network program; registration for which is also FREE.

The registration for Morfik Developers Network program will start at 1st November 2006.

The exact differences between Express and Professional editions are not quite clear to me. From http://prerelease.labs.morfik.com/:

The Professional edition includes extends the features and functions of the Morfik Express edition to address specific business needs in the area of sophisticated data connectivity for on-demand applications (mail and Salesforce.com services) and external databases (Firebird, Oracle and MS SQL Server). This means that with the Professional edition, you can go from prototype to production without any additional stress or rework.

So Express will not have external database connectivity (except built in Firebird), but will include:

JST, framework, debugger, web interface builder, database designer, Firebird engine, report builder, Apache server, control adaptors

Perhaps there will be no way calling external Web Services too? And what about Express edition deployment license – is it free for commercial applications too? Will the Express edition allow only embedded database access? I will definitely have to dig more on that!

On the prerelease page there are two demo presentations about WebOS AppsBuilder Professional versions features; one of the demos is for using the WebOS AppsBuilder (can we have a shorter name please? :) ) with Salesforce.com AppExchange platform.

Morfik and Salesforce integration

It is very interesting and opens a different opportunity for Morfik developers. On the demo you can see there is EBay provider, and I think we will be able to use various other providers for Amazon, Yahoo, Google and who knows what else? Very cool! This feature is called Satellite providers, if I understand the thing correctly.

The other demo is very interesting too.

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