I have to say that the introduction of a turn of the century enterprise software pricing model is not a welcome thing.
I think the subscription model is a much better approach in todays market. In particular since I think Datomic's early adopters are going to be mainly startups and not larger enterprise customers.
Their initial hosted transactor model was a good idea as well. The problem I think was that it was hard to come up with a way of pricing it in a way that people could understand.
Here's hoping they will return to our add back either the subscription model or hosted transactor in the near future.
Maybe I'm just lazy, but the biggest impediment to using Datomic right now is that I don't want to deal with the hosting and configuration that's required.
If I could just go to datomic.com, log in and click "create new database" and call it "my_new_app_database" and then immediately use that database from my app that would be fantastic.
(In short, I wish there was a heroku for datomic... admittedly, paying customers probably aren't impeded by such newb issues.)
I think the subscription model is a much better approach in todays market. In particular since I think Datomic's early adopters are going to be mainly startups and not larger enterprise customers.
Their initial hosted transactor model was a good idea as well. The problem I think was that it was hard to come up with a way of pricing it in a way that people could understand.
Here's hoping they will return to our add back either the subscription model or hosted transactor in the near future.