JotSpot is getting into the enterprise market, it appears, with the release of JotSpot Wiki Server. In beta, it allows JotSpot wiki to be hosted locally by an organization, although they don’t give any details on whether it could be hooked into an existing account/permissions structure like LDAP or Active Directory. According to the site, pricing starts at just over $100/month for 25 users with a 12-month commitment required, and a discount is mentioned for beta testers.

Compared with the other enterprise players, JotSpot’s information on pricing and the kind of compatibility features needed in an enterprise tool are somewhat vague. Atlassian has a “Licensing and Pricing” page (can’t get clearer than that!) which shows exactly what their software will cost, including the costs for academic users. This one is often overlooked by many software companies, and academic users are left calling a sales person to see what discount they might get. SocialText also has a page clearly detailing price per number of users. John Nolen has posted extensively on his blog about open vs. closed companies and I think JotSpot is leaning toward the closed side on this one, at least for pricing.