Laszlo's New Pricing

Laszlo has announced their low end version pricing. The low end version is limitted to deployment on single processor machines and costs $1,999. Personally, I think they would make a lot more money if that was the price for the Enterprise version. How do they expect to compete against Flash when their lowest end version is five times as expensive and their product doesn't even include any real tool support? [1]

[1] http://www.lazslosystems.com/products/prodoverview/lps-xe.php

5 Comments

  • Agree completely. We evaluated their platform, but when it came down to evaluating the cost, we just could not justify it, especially with Flex and all the other products on the horizon. If they were a bigger company, it would have been easier to justify, but their price is too high to garner the market share they will need to withstand the onslaught that is coming their way.

  • Yeah, well, if you're upset about Laszlo's pricing, just wait till you hear about Flex's proposed pricing scheme. It's all under NDA right now, but Laszlo will probably become much more attractive once the Flex information becomes public domain.

  • Flex being 10x as expensive still wouldn't negate the fact that Flash is only $400 for the complete authoring environment + built-in compiler and 10x as flexible when it comes to implementation choices. Not only do you have to pay 5x more for Laszlo, but you also burden yourself with the server dependancies (huge issue if you are an ISV) and limit yourself to always connected applications if you want to take advantage of a lot of the platform's functionality.

  • Not sure you are comparing apples to apples with regard to saying Flash is only $400 compared to Laszlo - Flash the IDE is meant for all kinds of purposes - whereas Laszlo is mainly for server-side RIA's and is most akin to Flex -- as Flex w/o the authoring tools.



    As far as I know, it would be not very difficult at all to set up Dreamweaver to work fine with Laszlo out of the box with someone taking advantage of Dreamweaver's already existant extensibility.



    I'd even say this plays to Laszlo's strength -- you can just keep using whatever tools you have -- be it Emacs or Dreamweaver and Laszlo would just fit in as another comsumer of your XML output, or as another distribution format like HTML...

  • A sooped up version of notepad with syntax highlighting is a far cry from an IDE.

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