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Bug 206847

Summary: Monetize the NetBeans Update Portal for commercial products
Product: ide Reporter: gliesian <gliesian>
Component: UIAssignee: John Jullion-ceccarelli <johnjullion>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: gliesian, mmirilovic
Priority: P1    
Version: 7.4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description gliesian 2012-01-02 17:24:54 UTC 
USE CASE: Consider the iPhone/iPad application retrieval process... you can get retrieve a free or commercial product by doing a quick search and performing a couple of clicks.  From desire to acquisition, can done in only a handful of seconds.

This model could be employed to the acquisition of free and commercial NetBeans plugins from within the NetBeans IDE.

*** I strongly believe that announcing that building NetBeans plugins could yield the developers a few bucks (through this model), the engagemnt to the IDE will explode significantly.

Of course, the open-source model will not change, as the vast majority of NetBeans plugins will be free, but if the user wants to update the plugin to an enhanced product, he/she should be able to so with only a couple of clicks... assuming there credit-card info and alike is already stored in the system.

As I've read before, software products need to continuously mature and change or they will die.  While I don't think that NetBeans is at any risk of die-ing, I do think that NetBeans is ready to take the jump from being teenager (theoretically speaking) to being full-fledged adult. :)

In summary, this issue request adding a feature that allows the user to quickly search for, pay for, and acquire commercial NetBeans plugins through the IDE, similar to the iPhone/iPad model.

Thanks for the consideration.
Comment 1 gliesian 2012-01-16 00:20:55 UTC 
I noticed this made it to the whiteboard... any notes on the discussion that could be shared?
Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2012-01-16 08:54:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I noticed this made it to the whiteboard... any notes on the discussion that
> could be shared?

No, this is just internal thing to organize reviewing issues in this category
Comment 3 gliesian 2014-01-27 18:53:06 UTC 
I blogged about this today:

Monetizing the NetBeans Plugin 
http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/
Comment 4 gliesian 2014-01-27 18:55:25 UTC 
Just renamed it...

Monetizing the NetBeans Update (Plugin) Portal
http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/
Comment 5 gliesian 2014-02-04 19:07:20 UTC 
Direct link to blog: http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2014/01/monetizing-netbeans-plugin.html

Please compare request with Adobe Exchange features.

-- Robert