Educational vs Enterprise License

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi All,

My company is a startup that had outsourced development of our apps. We have now inherited the source code and in order to do development, we require a license. We don’t make revenue currently, and want to see if the current skill set of our developers is such that they can continue to work on the projects we’ve inherited. 

I was hoping to purchase one month of the enterprise license so my developers could try out the Corona SDK, and if it went well, purchase an annual subscription. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem possible. I sent an email to Corona SDK support and they suggested getting the education license, but I’m not sure if I can build a project started with the enterprise license using the education license. 

I asked their support this question, but they aren’t responding anymore. Does anyone in the community know if there is any difference from a development perspective (not business perspective) between the enterprise and education licenses? Will I be able to build the projects created with an enterprise license using a different license?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

#2

Hello and welcome to the forums. I looked up the support ticket and it’s only been a couple of days. I’d give them a little more time and then you might want reply to the message again.

But before you do, tell me more about your project. Do you need Enterprise? Enterprise lets you build Corona SDK apps and include native features that are not supported by Corona SDK, like liking to odd libraries that are unique to your project. Many apps can be built using Corona SDK which is free. If your developer needs to spend time learning Corona and Lua I would start with Corona SDK and get a feel for what it can do and how to use it before you jump into Enterprise. 

Rob

#3

Hi Rob,

 

Thanks for the response. I’m fairly confident that we need Enterprise simply because when we try to build the project in the free SDK, we get errors that suggest we are missing libraries available in the Enterprise SDK.

The previous developers of our project were using the Enterprise SDK, and they have also told us we wouldn’t be able to build our apps unless we had Enterprise. But, because Corona support suggested the Educational license, I am trying to find out the difference between Enterprise and Educational in hopes I might be able to go with the more affordable option. My goal is to be able to continue working on our live app, but I’ll need a little more information from the Corona technical support staff.

Do you know if they have any office phone numbers, or is their customer service completely limited to forum posts and emails?

Cheers,

#4

As of now customer service is through Forums and Email. There are some restrictions on the educational license, but its around not putting it on a public machine, not transferring the license, etc. I didn’t see any restrictions on deployment of apps like some other educational licenses have. There is no physical difference, that is Enterprise is Enterprise. 

I’m inquiring into this to see what I can learn.

Rob

#5

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the reply. A couple questions based on your response:

  1. Did you mean to say “Educational is Enterprise” when you said “Enterprise is Enterprise”?

  2. If we buy an Educational license and it doesn’t work, can we be refunded and you revoke the license?

  3. What is a ‘public machine’? 

It has now been a week that we haven’t been able to work on our product and it’s becoming quite discouraging. Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,

Matthew

#6

1) Did you mean to say “Educational is Enterprise” when you said “Enterprise is Enterprise”?

 

Educational Enterprise and Non-Educational Enterprise is the same software. There are no differences. 

 

2) If we buy an Educational license and it doesn’t work, can we be refunded and you revoke the license?

 

Did you see my response to the support ticket? We should continue this discussion through the support ticket.

 

3) What is a ‘public machine’? 

 

You can install Educational Enterprise on personally owned computers. You cannot install it on computers in a school lab or library or internet cafe.

 

Rob

#7

Hello and welcome to the forums. I looked up the support ticket and it’s only been a couple of days. I’d give them a little more time and then you might want reply to the message again.

But before you do, tell me more about your project. Do you need Enterprise? Enterprise lets you build Corona SDK apps and include native features that are not supported by Corona SDK, like liking to odd libraries that are unique to your project. Many apps can be built using Corona SDK which is free. If your developer needs to spend time learning Corona and Lua I would start with Corona SDK and get a feel for what it can do and how to use it before you jump into Enterprise. 

Rob

#8

Hi Rob,

 

Thanks for the response. I’m fairly confident that we need Enterprise simply because when we try to build the project in the free SDK, we get errors that suggest we are missing libraries available in the Enterprise SDK.

The previous developers of our project were using the Enterprise SDK, and they have also told us we wouldn’t be able to build our apps unless we had Enterprise. But, because Corona support suggested the Educational license, I am trying to find out the difference between Enterprise and Educational in hopes I might be able to go with the more affordable option. My goal is to be able to continue working on our live app, but I’ll need a little more information from the Corona technical support staff.

Do you know if they have any office phone numbers, or is their customer service completely limited to forum posts and emails?

Cheers,

#9

As of now customer service is through Forums and Email. There are some restrictions on the educational license, but its around not putting it on a public machine, not transferring the license, etc. I didn’t see any restrictions on deployment of apps like some other educational licenses have. There is no physical difference, that is Enterprise is Enterprise. 

I’m inquiring into this to see what I can learn.

Rob

#10

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the reply. A couple questions based on your response:

  1. Did you mean to say “Educational is Enterprise” when you said “Enterprise is Enterprise”?

  2. If we buy an Educational license and it doesn’t work, can we be refunded and you revoke the license?

  3. What is a ‘public machine’? 

It has now been a week that we haven’t been able to work on our product and it’s becoming quite discouraging. Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,

Matthew

#11

1) Did you mean to say “Educational is Enterprise” when you said “Enterprise is Enterprise”?

 

Educational Enterprise and Non-Educational Enterprise is the same software. There are no differences. 

 

2) If we buy an Educational license and it doesn’t work, can we be refunded and you revoke the license?

 

Did you see my response to the support ticket? We should continue this discussion through the support ticket.

 

3) What is a ‘public machine’? 

 

You can install Educational Enterprise on personally owned computers. You cannot install it on computers in a school lab or library or internet cafe.

 

Rob