About this Product

TIBCO® is proud to announce the latest release of TIBCO FTL® software.

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

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 processes, 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 (community.tibco.com).
TIBCO FTL in the Community Edition has the following additional limitations and exclusions:
  • Excludes transport bridges.
  • Excludes the RDMA transport protocol.
  • Excludes disaster recovery features.
  • Excludes customizable dashboards and monitoring gateway.

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.

Bundling

The enterprise edition of TIBCO ActiveSpaces® uses the enterprise edition of TIBCO Messaging and includes a license for it. The community edition of TIBCO ActiveSpaces is compatible with both the enterprise and community editions of TIBCO Messaging.