Not to sound cheap, but the first thing I note is the pricing. It's a little confusing. Does 33 cents per day mean that I'm only charged on days that I use it? So, if I use it Monday - Friday, I'll typically pay 7 Euros per month rather than 10 Euros? Or is it merely saying that it's only 33 cents per day? I'm also unsure what you mean by a workspace. In the UI photos, there's the concept of a "project", but I'm unsu…
Great comments. So I just answered about pricing on a comment below, but here's the gist of it: We charge per day to give you the flexibility of the cloud. Cloud9 is not an IDE alone, it's your tooling + test environment in the Cloud. So it's hosted, hosting costs money and we charge you for it. The idea is that if you are doing a commercial project with a good hourly rate, then paying 50 cents a day for the platform…
I'll probably get an account for open-source later today to play around with, but if your Ruby stuff is really good (when it lands) and works well for collaboration, I could easily justify $15/mo to my boss and sometimes one isn't trying to create the solution for every cheap hobbyist out there. It can be good to be the Basecamp of IDEs and maybe that's how you should sell it (in contrast to my comparisons to Eclipse and RubyMine).