[FooBarWidget]

We will continue to develop the open source version. All changes in the open source version will end up in Enterprise, but Enterprise will have more features. We intend on making a living out of this so by buying Enterprise you will directly sponsor development of the open source version.

[mlitwiniuk]

Maybe you could create some kind of comparission table? Because it take some time now to understand what for I'm supposed to be paying for (and as long as passenger runs on few of my servers, it would be my pleasure to thank you for passenger by buying a license).

[ninh]

Aaah, we initially considered stacking the open source version against the enterprise version in a comparison table, but due to some previously made design choices, were unable to fit the column properly in time! Instead, we opted to drop that column in favor of being able to launch today and potentially fix in a future update.

Considering the feedback from this thread, it definitely looks like something we need to fit back in and will be among the things we'll work on for the next iteration/deploy. Thanks for the feedback and kind words, it's much appreciated seeing as we've been working on this for a while now; it easily becomes hard to look at things with a fresh pair of eyes after a while, which is definitely needed for giving a good first impression imo.

[chuyeow]

Hongli, Ninh, I've always loved Passenger (it's running almost all of my Rails apps) and am happy to see you guys try to get paid directly for all the effort that went into Passenger.

I just wanted to add my voice that I think it'll be useful for developers to know what you guys intend to do with the open source version now that you've the Enterprise version. A comparison table like mlitwiniuk mentioned would be useful.

Would also like to know when the open source version of Passenger 4.0 will be available so I can decide whether to pay for a few Enterprise licenses now or hold on.

[Ruphin]

Hey chuyeow, nice to see you like Passenger.

The Open Source version of Passenger will always be our core product, and it will be maintained and developed just as it always has been.

Phusion Passenger Enterprise is a set of features added on top of the Open Source version, to add stability and deployment features to high performance applications. As Ninh posted earlier, we are working on a direct comparison table to make the differences more clear.

Because Passenger Enterprise is built directly on top of Passenger Open Source, both versions are always released in tandem. This means that Open Source 4.0 and Enterprise 4.0 will be released at the same time.

[mlitwiniuk]

+1 for ETA. Also - there is one thing more, that is unclear - I know, that you will not limit functionality of OS Passenger and it's still fully legit to use current version, but it would be great, if you could exclusively mark it somewhere, that this wouldn't be unclear. Or just create some kind of FAQ. You know - after all MANY people are using your software and once you've decided to start offering paid version, there are doubts about future etc

[Ruphin]

Hey mlitwiniuk, those are some very good suggestions. For version 2 of the site, we will make sure to include a FAQ.

For now we just want to make clear that Passenger Open Source will remain a fully legit product, and it will never be limited in functionality to increase sales on our paid products.

[FooBarWidget]

Hi Chuyeow, glad you like it. The open source version of Phusion Passenger 4 is already available, and has been for a while now. It hasn't reached beta status yet, but you can find the code in the 'experimental' branch on Github. Phusion Passenger 4 contains many rewritten subsystems, allowing it to perform better. It also supports multiple Ruby versions.

There's no need to hold on to buying Enterprise. All Phusion Passenger 4.0 open source features will become immediately available to Enterprise users. We also have some more Enterprise-only features planned for the future, and we will be announcing them on our blog.