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Hi all,<br>
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As some of you may be aware Sencha have drastically changed their
licensing costs for the ExtJS framework. The option to buy a license
without support has gone, and now licenses must be bought in packs
of 5. The costs of using ExtJS have therefore risen from ~300 EUR to
~3,000 EUR. There has not been a very happy reaction from single
developers: <a
href="http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/">http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/</a><br>
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I currently have a very large ExtJS 3.x codebase using GeoExt and
was going to move to version 4 (and GeoExt 2), however costs and now
lack of trust in what Sencha may do next are worrying. We used to
get a license for the support releases at 3.x - but I suppose
technically we could use the GPL version of ExtJS as all source code
is delivered to the client and it is an internal application. <br>
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GeoExt has some very nice functionality on which to build as does
ExtJS, but it would be nice to be able to use it for commercial
projects too. Angular seems to be expanding hugely, but the breaking
changes in v2 seem to have annoyed all the devs working with that.
Dojo seems the most similar to ExtJs, and has the benefit of sharing
development on ESRI systems, but doesn't seem as slick as ExtJS and
would require huge amounts of time to port applications to. <br>
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Does anyone have their own strategies for the future of their own
codebases? Will the licensing changes have an impact of GeoExt
development?<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Seth<br>
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