# About this Product

TIBCO is proud to announce the latest release of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ software.

This release is the latest in a long history of TIBCO products that leverage the power of the Information Bus® technology to enable truly event-driven IT environments. To find out more about how TIBCO Enterprise Message Service software and other TIBCO products are powered by TIB® technology, please visit us at www.tibco.com.

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service software lets application programs send and receive messages according to the Java Message Service (JMS) protocol. It also integrates with TIBCO FTL, TIBCO Rendezvous, and TIBCO SmartSockets messaging products.

TIBCO EMS software is part of TIBCO® Messaging.

## Product Editions

TIBCO Messaging is available in a community edition and an enterprise edition.

TIBCO Messaging - Community Edition is ideal for getting started with TIBCO Messaging, for implementing application projects (including proof of concept efforts), for testing, and for deploying applications in a production environment. Although the community license limits the number of production clients, you can easily upgrade to the enterprise edition as your use of TIBCO Messaging expands.

The community edition is available free of charge. It is a full installation of the TIBCO Messaging software, with the following limitations and exclusions:

- Users may run up to 100 application instances or 1000 web/mobile instances in a production environment.
- Users do not have access to TIBCO Support, but you can use TIBCO Community as a resource (https://community.tibco.com).
- Available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Microsoft Windows & Windows Server and Apple macOS.

TIBCO Messaging - Community Edition has the following additional limitations and exclusions:

- Excludes Fault Tolerance of the server.
- Excludes Unshared State Failover.
- Excludes Routing of messages between servers.
- Excludes Central Administration.
- Excludes JSON configuration files.

TIBCO Messaging - Enterprise Edition is ideal for all application development projects, and for deploying and managing applications in an enterprise production environment. It includes all features presented in this documentation set, as well as access to TIBCO Support.

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