Difference between KalturaCE and kaltura ???

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Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:00
ash007
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can anyone explain me the limitations of kalturaCE ? In all aspects ..

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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 15:16
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Hi,

Please be more specific... What do you plan to do with Kaltura?

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Sat, 02/20/2010 - 09:37
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Hi ashish,

In the Platform introduction doc - read the section about Kaltura Editions.

Basically, the Kaltura platform is divided in to 3 editions: Community Edition that is fully open source and free, SaaS on kaltura.com that provides all Kaltura functionality without the need to self host on your server and the Enterprise Edition that provide all the kaltura.com stack along with support packages for large corporations that require the Kaltura functionality behind their firewall.

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Mon, 07/12/2010 - 00:29
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I think what ash is asking is whether there are functional differences between the SaaS, Community and Enterprise versions. I'd like to pose this question too.

By my reading of http://cdn.kaltura.org/understanding-kaltura-open-source-video-online-pl... there's no software difference and we should be able to swap the Kaltura backend without any change to integrated code. The difference is in the support and hosting package only. A developer building apps for a client deployed on Kaltura EE or Kaltura SaaS may use Kaltura CE internally without any need for code changes (apart from updating the Kaltura server app settings, ie IP, application secret & key).

Is that accurate, @Kalturian?

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Sat, 08/07/2010 - 22:15
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Yup, you're right.
Kaltura On-Prem™, Kaltura On-Prem™ CE, and Kaltura SaaS all provide the same base structure and functionality.

That said, Kaltura On-Prem™ and Kaltura SaaS will contain additional partner / deployment specific integrations, plugins, or features of any kind. Kaltura On-Prem™ and Kaltura SaaS are provided with full support and subscription to upgrades, bug fixes, and additional development services for features the customer need.

When developing applications, it will be compatible APIs wise across all (given you did not use any special APIs or plugins). It is though best practice to test across all editions.

Things that will be different from edition to edition are:

  1. uiConf / widget ids (These can be made similar, however, it is still always best practice not to to depend on ids), if you depend on specific uiConf or widget, bundle your application with relevant Kaltura kit that will deploy your uiConfs and widgets on the target Kaltura instance.
  2. Entry ids users / sessions / secrets - As this is automatically created, you can't depend on same ids to be available.
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