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AdamSFdev Authenticated Website high-volume portal user license and move to Customer communities
Hi,
Can someone please explain to me how the introduction of communities affects force.com users. My Salesforce sales rep is saying that after July 31, the force.com authenticated website users will be discontinued and you have to switch to communities. this does not make any sense to me as the communities functionality is not relevant to force.com. Can anyone please provide whatever information they might have. Customer community licenses as opposed to authenticated website licenses are about 5 times the cost for functionality that i dont want. All i want is authentication.
"The Authenticated Website high-volume portal user license is specifically designed to be used with Force.com sites. Because it's designed for high volumes, it should be a cost-effective option to use with Force.com sites."
https://na14.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_platform_portal_implementation_guide.pdf
Thank you for your help.
Adam
My understanding is that the licenses are only being discontinued for new orgs - older orgs that already have those licenses will still be able to purchase more.
However, the AWS was simply a high volume portal license that was intended to be used for a Force.com site - you still had to set up a portal that your users authenticated against, but you didn't show them any portal pages. The customer community license is the new high volume license, and each community includes a site that can display Force.com site and site.com pages. If this is a new org, you have no choice but to buy the customer community license - if its purely for a web site I'd expect your AE to be able to cut you a deal that takes that into account, but I haven't been through that process myself yet.
I am going to buy AWS users in my second org just so i can be grandfathered in. This definitely ruins my future plans with force.com however, unless I am completely missing something. What was lost in my opinion was a low setup cost for new apps. What is gained is that people with less technical skills can get a social site up to share with their customers/suppliers/etc.
As per: http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applications/salesforce-communities-portal-killers/240154044
Given my knowledge of the switch, it appears to me that in fact Salesforce is killing force.com. They are focusing on selling a social platform to larger corporations and moving away from their desire to be a PAAS and compete with Google, Amazon, Azure, etc. This will make it impossible for new developers to setup a cheap/free app on force.com if they intend to offer any authentication. Maybe they are trying to push people to Heroku???