I have posted this question a while ago as an answer to another post, but I have the feeling that it is hard to find it there - and I haven’t received an answer yet.
Therefore I am posting it now as a separate topic.
On the web site Bonitasoft | Pricing – Find the Right Bonita Plan you find the restriction to 150 process instances per month under the heading “Production”. However, I found this restriction not only applies to the use of Bonita in production, but also to development and testing. So when you just use the Bonita Studio with the built in local Bonita sever, you can only start 150 process instances. Not 150 instances per process definition, but 150 altogether.
I have been using the Bonita community edition now for many many years in my university courses on Business Process Automation and I have created a lot of example processes which I have also provided as projects to this community.
The 150 cases limit is now a real show stopper. When the students develop process applications they obviously need to debug and test them. In many cases - for example if they need to analyze and find a problem - they need to hit the “run” button many many times. That means that they may reach the limit after a few hours.
We are not using Bonita in production - just for some student projects. So can’t you remove the 150 cases limit for a purely local installation (Bonita Studio + integrated local server) so that it is possible to develop and test processes?
Or have you considered to provide a Bonita version to universities for teaching purposes without that limit?