San Jose, CA/Paris, France – July 10, 2013 – 4D, a leading provider of business application development solutions, has announced the availability of Wakanda 5, the company’s groundbreaking open source JavaScript development platform. In addition to this new full version of Wakanda, 4D is offering all-new commercial and enterprise licensing options, as well as support plans to aid those using Wakanda in open source all the way up to mission critical, enterprise-scale deployments.
“The Wakanda platform has reached a certain level of maturity, meaning that developers are now taking their Wakanda applications to production at various scales,” said Ricardo Mello, Product Director for Wakanda. “To respond to the needs of our developers, we’re introducing Wakanda 5 not only with the new features they expect, but also with a variety of highly adapted licensing and support options that can scale with their solutions.”
Wakanda 5 improvements make development easier
“Wakanda is awesome, it’s the development tool I’ve been waiting for,” attests Patrick Pötschke, founder and chief developer at Quantus Software, a development house for customized software solutions. “Developing data-driven Web apps is now as productive as developing classic desktop apps.”
Web developer Alistair Bates of Sydney, Australia, agrees: “Wakanda has offered a very productive environment and a very robust database server, which was crucial for building an investment fund management application.”
In addition to all-new interface widgets and helpful CSS themes, Wakanda 5 introduces new session management features, improved permissions management, and for those working on multiple versions of projects or with multiple developers, Git branch support. An overview of Wakanda’s features can be found at: http://wakanda.org
New commercial licenses & upcoming enterprise licenses scale to project complexity
“If you’ve ever migrated a data-intensive application to the Web, then you would know the complexity of the task we faced,” recounts Michael Hong, a developer at TOPIX Business Software AG tasked with converting their highly complex CRM and ERP product, customized for each client’s business needs. “Which made Wakanda a perfect fit.”
Commercial licensing options cater to developers and businesses at multiple levels: The Wakanda Development Business license affords developers the ability to keep their source code private (whereas the free Community edition requires that all solutions be made available as open source at the time of distribution, as per the AGPL v3 public license). Wakanda Development Business also provides the ability to use commercial versions of Wakanda Server, Wakanda Studio and the Wakanda Application Server for testing purposes. Pricing is set at $129/€99 per year, per named developer.
The new Wakanda Deployment Business license allows for commercial deployment, so that developers can put their solutions into production without sharing their source code. Wakanda Deployment Business pricing is set at $259/€199 per year, per instance of Wakanda Server. Potential customers for this license should note that multiple Wakanda applications can be run from a single server.
4D is also pre-announcing the imminent availability of the Wakanda Development Enterprise and Wakanda Deployment Enterprise licenses, which provide access to the platform’s forthcoming “Enterprise” features to further extend and enhance applications with connectors to various data platforms.
Further details of Wakanda’s commercial licenses can be found at the Wakanda store: http://wakanda.4d.com
Full customer support comes to Wakanda
“With an active community of over 1500 developers on the Wakanda Forum, our community-based support – both free and premium – has been quite successful,” said Aziz Elghomari, 4D’s Director of Services and Support. “But as our customers’ application development and scale of deployment grow, so do their support needs. We are therefore, in addition to new licensing, introducing support options to ensure that applications created with Wakanda have every advantage available.”
Development support for Wakanda is now available in three levels: Standard, Advanced, and Elite, each of which offer varying degrees of support and resources based on developer needs. Pricing and additional advantages are detailed on the Wakanda store.
Deployment support is also offered at three levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum, providing production support at various scales and availability. Pricing and Further advantages are listed on the Wakanda store.
All support options are available to developers who are developing and deploying with all levels of licenses, including the free open source Community license. Further support details are available at the Wakanda store: http://wakanda.4d.com
About Wakanda
Wakanda provides developers with a data-driven JavaScript development platform for Web and mobile business applications. The Wakanda foundation relies on best-of-breed technology: A powerful and secure open source NoSQL database & server, an extensible model-driven architecture based on JavaScript and REST, all facilitated by a complete development studio and client framework. Wakanda is fully industry standard compliant, including JSON, REST/HTTP, W3C and CommonJS. Cloud solutions developed with Wakanda can be deployed as either native or HTML5 applications targeting any desktop or mobile platform. Built on 25 years of business application experience and with the support of an active developer community, Wakanda’s new open source development environment lets developers take advantage of many third-party widgets, libraries, extensions and server modules.
Availability and Pricing
Wakanda 5 is available immediately, and is offered as a free open source Community edition, as well as with commercial licensing starting at $129/€99/year. Paid support options start at $519/€399/year. For more information and to download Wakanda, please visit: http://www.wakanda.org
For details on commercial licensing and paid support plans, visit: http://wakanda.4d.com
“The Wakanda platform has reached a certain level of maturity, meaning that developers are now taking their Wakanda applications to production at various scales,” said Ricardo Mello, Product Director for Wakanda. “To respond to the needs of our developers, we’re introducing Wakanda 5 not only with the new features they expect, but also with a variety of highly adapted licensing and support options that can scale with their solutions.”
Wakanda 5 improvements make development easier
“Wakanda is awesome, it’s the development tool I’ve been waiting for,” attests Patrick Pötschke, founder and chief developer at Quantus Software, a development house for customized software solutions. “Developing data-driven Web apps is now as productive as developing classic desktop apps.”
Web developer Alistair Bates of Sydney, Australia, agrees: “Wakanda has offered a very productive environment and a very robust database server, which was crucial for building an investment fund management application.”
In addition to all-new interface widgets and helpful CSS themes, Wakanda 5 introduces new session management features, improved permissions management, and for those working on multiple versions of projects or with multiple developers, Git branch support. An overview of Wakanda’s features can be found at: http://wakanda.org
New commercial licenses & upcoming enterprise licenses scale to project complexity
“If you’ve ever migrated a data-intensive application to the Web, then you would know the complexity of the task we faced,” recounts Michael Hong, a developer at TOPIX Business Software AG tasked with converting their highly complex CRM and ERP product, customized for each client’s business needs. “Which made Wakanda a perfect fit.”
Commercial licensing options cater to developers and businesses at multiple levels: The Wakanda Development Business license affords developers the ability to keep their source code private (whereas the free Community edition requires that all solutions be made available as open source at the time of distribution, as per the AGPL v3 public license). Wakanda Development Business also provides the ability to use commercial versions of Wakanda Server, Wakanda Studio and the Wakanda Application Server for testing purposes. Pricing is set at $129/€99 per year, per named developer.
The new Wakanda Deployment Business license allows for commercial deployment, so that developers can put their solutions into production without sharing their source code. Wakanda Deployment Business pricing is set at $259/€199 per year, per instance of Wakanda Server. Potential customers for this license should note that multiple Wakanda applications can be run from a single server.
4D is also pre-announcing the imminent availability of the Wakanda Development Enterprise and Wakanda Deployment Enterprise licenses, which provide access to the platform’s forthcoming “Enterprise” features to further extend and enhance applications with connectors to various data platforms.
Further details of Wakanda’s commercial licenses can be found at the Wakanda store: http://wakanda.4d.com
Full customer support comes to Wakanda
“With an active community of over 1500 developers on the Wakanda Forum, our community-based support – both free and premium – has been quite successful,” said Aziz Elghomari, 4D’s Director of Services and Support. “But as our customers’ application development and scale of deployment grow, so do their support needs. We are therefore, in addition to new licensing, introducing support options to ensure that applications created with Wakanda have every advantage available.”
Development support for Wakanda is now available in three levels: Standard, Advanced, and Elite, each of which offer varying degrees of support and resources based on developer needs. Pricing and additional advantages are detailed on the Wakanda store.
Deployment support is also offered at three levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum, providing production support at various scales and availability. Pricing and Further advantages are listed on the Wakanda store.
All support options are available to developers who are developing and deploying with all levels of licenses, including the free open source Community license. Further support details are available at the Wakanda store: http://wakanda.4d.com
About Wakanda
Wakanda provides developers with a data-driven JavaScript development platform for Web and mobile business applications. The Wakanda foundation relies on best-of-breed technology: A powerful and secure open source NoSQL database & server, an extensible model-driven architecture based on JavaScript and REST, all facilitated by a complete development studio and client framework. Wakanda is fully industry standard compliant, including JSON, REST/HTTP, W3C and CommonJS. Cloud solutions developed with Wakanda can be deployed as either native or HTML5 applications targeting any desktop or mobile platform. Built on 25 years of business application experience and with the support of an active developer community, Wakanda’s new open source development environment lets developers take advantage of many third-party widgets, libraries, extensions and server modules.
Availability and Pricing
Wakanda 5 is available immediately, and is offered as a free open source Community edition, as well as with commercial licensing starting at $129/€99/year. Paid support options start at $519/€399/year. For more information and to download Wakanda, please visit: http://www.wakanda.org
For details on commercial licensing and paid support plans, visit: http://wakanda.4d.com
