What is the difference between the Community Edition and the Start-Up Program?
Both offerings allow the free use of GigaSpaces XAP, but are intended for different purposes. GigaSpaces XAP Community Edition is available for free, but is functionally constrained to a single node. It is useful for testing, development and small-scale deployments. This edition is targeted for developers who are building applications that do not currently have special scalability or performance requirements – but anticipate such requirements in the future and would like to prepare for their future needs by architecting their system around scalable concepts. It is also ideally suited for open source projects that wish to bundle or distribute GigaSpaces XAP with their product – thus giving their product enterprise-grade performance. End users can later upgrade to the full commercial version with its powerful clustering capabilities and no change in code! The Start-Up Program provides participants the free use of the full, un-constrained commercial edition of GigaSpaces XAP, but is limit
