Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

For my purposes, I'll stick with Flot since its free of licensing fees (at least as far as I can tell). But if I had a budget to work with, Highcharts is appealing.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by lucisferre » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:27 PM UTC

ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too:

http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html

One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by damoncali » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:42 PM UTC

lucisferre wrote: post #5

ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

I don't even know what pricing per developer means. They should rethink this, because I know lots of people who ignore it because it doesn't make sense for their situation.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by ricardobeat » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

lucisferre wrote: post #5

ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

What's the problem? Per-seat licenses are nothing new, it's how you have always bought Adobe/Microsoft/Autodesk/etc software.

Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by aviswanathan » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

Funnel is a big one. I don't think anyone else has this (besides D3 - but you can do basically anything with D3).

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by ramg » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

lucisferre wrote: post #5

ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

Looking closer, the "Learn More" link under Single Developer says "Allow Highcharts to be used with an unlimited number of SaaS projects, web applications, intranets, and websites for you or your customers."

Based on this, their pricing seems reasonable.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by jim_h » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

bhauer wrote: post #4

Congratulations, it looks great. Nicer than Flot. For my purposes, I'll stick with Flot since its free of licensing fees (at least as far as I can tell). But if I had a budget to work with, Highcharts is appealing.

I wish it was more affordable too. I believe it was only $100 a couple of years ago. That was almost OK as a price to try it out, but the current pricing puts it out of my range for now.