Blumentals has been updating this suite about every two years, so an upgrade cost of $50 is $25 per year, a bargain in anybody's book.

When comparing pricing, the initial buy-in is one thing but the more important consideration is the long-term upgrade cost. For Rapid PHP, a license for four (4) users is $180 with an upgrade price of $100. Blumentals offers lower-cost Academic and personal licenses as well as volume pricing for multiple seats.Ī special 'team' license is available for some of the products. Upgrade prices are less Rapid PHP's upgrade price is $50. At the top of the pyramid is the main product, WeBuilder, costing $90 and adding support for Ruby, ASP/.NET and Python. $70 gets you Rapid PHP, supporting PHP and associated technologies such as SQL and Apache. At $60 is HTMLPad, which adds JavaScript to the mix. The family dates back to 2004.Īt the bottom of the heap Is Rapid CSS at $50, capable of editing CSS and HTML.

The four editors are actually variations of one editor (WeBuilder) from which features are stripped to create the other products.

Rapid PHP is one of a suite of four editors from Blumentals Software in Latvia.

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