Wow, this thread is old, but since it was just commented on and given a bump, I'm adding my 2 cents.
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Hello, I am doing the same consultation to the local representative in Argentina, and I have 3 days without response. Although 6 years have passed if this week I get to answer I commented.
Reading what I think you're referring to, is staging as the test, testing or Pre-production environment
Best regards
Anibal
I confirm that is what you comment staging is the test environment
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My response to the the original post and above.
Although it is important to talk to your customer service rep or local distributor for cost and actual details, since things may vary between organization type and country, this is a rough recap of what we we are thinking about doing (State Agency in the US...no ELA).
- For Deployment (i.e. Production) we have Advanced Enterprise (ArcGIS Server, Portal) on maintenance. We also have the Image Server on maintenance (no longer an extension).
- Since we only had a few developers/publishers in the past, each of those users subscribed to the what was called the ESRI Developer Network (EDN) annual subscription. That gave the developers all the tools they needed to develop and test publication or services, etc., but other staff we not allowed to use the software, it is not for production, At that time, Image Server was an extension and was included in our level of the EDN.
- The developer annual subscription has changed and there are multiple levels (cost and what you get). The level we plan to get (subject to change) will not include a developer version of Image Server (but we will still have Deployment/Production)
- We have more developers now, and are expanding our organizations GIS to more Divisions. We are now approaching the tipping point to look at a "staging" licenses versus developer licenses.
- However, with the developer subscriptions, a different number of users could get subscriptions (and are not necessarily the same time-frame, i.e. 12 months). With the staging license, we would have to have a sustainable budget for annual maintenance.
Because we have our Adv Ent license for production, it sounds like for our staging license can be a "Standard Level" instead of an Advanced level. One of the main differences is we will get fewer Level 2 users for Portal, but since it is for staging/development and not deployment/production, for us that may work. But from what I understand (need to confirm) the actual software and functionalities (minus the Image Server for us) is the same, but your can not use for production.
All though not totally confirmed yet...what we lose going with a staging license vs the annual Developer Subscriptions (per person) is we will only be able to install on one machine (vs a Dev license can install and test on multiple...e.g. on their local machine), the Runtime development, and possibly the AGS Studio Development platform.
What we gain is not having to limit/control (licensing wise) the developers that have access to the staging machine.
I was planning on writing this up to share and discuss with our staff so I decided to share it here as as I get confirmation on some of the items (I'm going to have my rep see if I summarized our discussion correctly). I Hope this helps. Again,
