You may be right for this plugin. But I expect Atlassian to repeat that in the future again. It is simply an easy strategy to generate an additional revenue stream. Just like with Greenhopper.

It's a good point – there's a lot lacking. But it's a 1.0 product, and I'm hoping that by converting it to a paid product, they'll be putting resources behind those kinds of needs (I need those things too )

I haven't put in an issue for CalDAV because I've been trying first to find out if it's already supported. The interoperability information is maddeningly abstract (OK, it interoperates with iCal and Outlook, but using what?) I guess it's easy for them to close an issue if it's already supported – thanks for the links to the appropriate project

Martin comes off as a shill.

If the plugin was fully featured, I wouldn't balk at price. The lack of:

• ability to relate more than one person to an event/appointment (TEAMCAL-86)
• RVSP functionality (TEAMCAL-104)
• compact views (TEAMCAL-99)
• security (TEAMCAL-102)

...to me are the reason for a 40% discount.

Jeff: If you want CalDAV, have you created an issue for it? I can't find any when searching for CalDAV...

I generally have to agree with Martin here, although I think he meant "refined" instead of "refinanced"

(CalDAV)

Confluence and JIRA are priced low, IMHO, compared to the value they bring (look at the price of Confluence vs. Lotus Connections for instance). This helps growth and adoption, and it's a valid market strategy. Extra plugins on top are priced both to fund their development and because this helps offset the low price of the original software.

(CalDAV)

The Calendar plugin was nice when it was free, but to be honest, I discouraged users from relying on it specifically because it was a freebie and not open source. I knew that Atlassian could stop development on it at any time (not that many didn't use it anyways, which means I have an unfun manual upgrade coming up, unless an automatically-upgrading version is released soon), and I wouldn't really have any right to be angry with them for this, nor would I have recourse or an upgrade path without the source code.

(CalDAV)

To me, the new product looks like it brings a lot of extra, useful features. Yes, it's costly compared to Confluence, but that's comparing apples with oranges; it's not costly compared to many other group calendaring solutions (Oracle calendar, Exchange).

Did I mention I need it to support CalDAV?

I refuse to agree, that the price point of this piece of software is expensive. You guys keep comparing all pricing with the Confluence and JIRA basic pricing, which is not fair and will ultimately be problematic:
1. Plugins sell less and thus have to be more expensive to be refinanced.
2. Confluence and JIRA land in a company. A low price point is crucial for that mission. Plugins simply have to reflect the value they bring.

I highly recommend to start comparing prices with value, that you get out of team calendars. I am pretty sure, that Atlassian is not going to reduce pricing for this one in the foreseeable future.

Did you know, that you get a 40% discount in the first year as an introduction? You should go for that.

I ran this by my boss and he was also surprised at the cost. For that much it's usually something like JIRA Greenhopper that adds a ton of features throughout the product. I think it's especially tough for people who were happy with the existing free plugin. Basically he told me to wait on this one and keep limping by with the unsupported one until the price comes down in the future.

For upgrades I assume we'd just download each calendar from the old plugin (iCal format), and then import each one. What would be really awesome is some automated upgrade from existing Calendar Plugin calendars.

The new one does look very nice though.

I deleted it, as I realized venting is probably not going to do anything.. But yea, $3600 for this on top of our existing 2000+ fees seems rather large.. I wish they would have done something like a stripped down calendar version without any connections (just to have simple calendar on a wiki page) and then have the full version for that price.

...did Tom Moore delete his comment for whatever reasons or some admin? I find his statement quite true - the pricing is overwhelming considering this was a free plugin. It's half of the yearly conflunce fee and I guess you will have to renew your licence yearly as well if you want to stay compatible with confluence upgrades.

Does it support CalDAV?

I wasn't one of the blessed that got personal chats with anyone at Atlassian about our calendaring needs, but I can tell you that we're happy to pay for the plugin if it provides the functionality we need. We were in the process of setting up Zimbra because it supports CalDAV; I'd much rather save that headache and use Team Calendars, but can find no information about what protocols it supports, just handwavy information in the notes about it supporting subscriptions with iCal and Outlook. Give me CalDAV and you'll have a happy paying customer.

Greg, just click the 'Try Now' button on this page to start an evaluation of the new plugin.