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TECH NEWS
SNAPPS AnyPlace Line of IBM Lotus Quickr Products Become Free Licenses
Four products designed to enhance the experience and productivity with IBM Lotus Quickr and QuickPlace for developers, administrators, and users are now free.
SNAPPS (Strategic Net Applications, Inc.) plans to convert its AnyPlace line of products for IBM Lotus Quickr and its predecessor, IBM Lotus QuickPlace, to free licenses. The products are designed to enhance the experience and productivity with IBM Lotus Quickr and QuickPlace for developers, administrators, and users. The product line includes:
AnyPlace Designer, a Dreamweaver extension to ease development of custom themes
- AnyPlace SiteMap, a floating control panel for simple navigation of a specific place
- AnyPlace ServerMap, a floating control panel similar to SiteMap, but for an entire server with favorite places, admin controls and grouping
- AnyPlace Administrator, the flagship product in the line that provides a complete Web admin client for QuickPlace and Quickr server administrators
Each of the products works with multiple versions of QuickPlace and already works with Quickr 8. In addition, several updates are being made to the products to allow deeper integration with Qucikr 8; those enhancements will be completed in the first quarter of 2008. The free version of each of the four products will be downloadable from the SNAPPS Quickr Templates site (QuickrTemplates.com) in mid-February, after SNAPPS' software developers have removed the license key code and completed the Quickr 8 updates. AnyPlace Designer, which does not require a license key, is available now upon request.
The move to free licenses was prompted by the success of the SNAPPS Quickr Templates under the free software model, and a choice by SNAPPS to sacrifice license fees for a greater presence in Quickr deployments. "Our products, especially AnyPlace Administrator, have been an entry point for many enterprise customers who have then become high-value consulting or development clients," explained Rob Novak, SNAPPS president "Making the AnyPlace products free brings down the price barrier to realizing the value of these powerful tools, while expanding the reach of the SNAPPS name throughout IBM's Lotus Quickr customer enterprises. Our goal is to expand the use of these products by 50 times their level as paid licenses. It's about giving back, and it's about ubiquity."
The four products are detailed on the SNAPPS Web site under "Solutions" and have trial versions available. Users are encouraged to wait for the updated, free versions available in mid-February for new or updated deployments. The free licenses will have optional paid support with pricing to be determined. Current licensees of the paid products will continue to receive support and maintenance until their renewal date, when they wil be converted to free versions and support renewal.
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Keyword Tags: IBM, IBM Lotus, IBM Lotus QuickPlace, IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM WebSphere, SNAPPS, SNAPPS AnyPlace Administrator, SNAPPS AnyPlace Designer, SNAPPS AnyPlace ServerMap, SNAPPS AnyPlace SiteMap
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