KnowledgeTree Overview > KnowledgeTree Editions | KnowledgeTree Document Management Software

•	KnowledgeTreeLive - Hosted, Document Management on Demand; a pay per month and per user subscription service requiring no installation or maintenance.

•	KnowledgeTree Community Edition - Community supported, free to download, use, modify, and redistribute subject to the terms of the GNU GPL v3. Lacks some commercial features.

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KnowledgeTree Commercial On Premise Edition - stack installed on your own operating system, commercially supported, production-ready document management software application, and includes the KnowledgeTree Client Tools for Windows package. Click here to view Support options for KnowledgeTree Commercial Subscriptions.

KnowledgeTreeLive is a Web-based, hosted edition of the KnowledgeTree Document Management Software that runs on Amazon's Elastic Compute CloudTM. Documents are stored on Amazon.com's Simple Storage ServiceTM - a massive, fault-tolerant, storage area network. This type of offering is typically referred to as 'Software-as-a-Service'.

The KnowledgeTreeLive service runs on rPathTM Linux Software Appliances, providing KnowledgeTree with a fast and effective management platform for large Linux virtual server clusters.

Sign up for a KnowledgeTreeLive account at the KnowledgeTree Website. When signing up, you will receive an Administrator account and a secure Web address.

Your KnowledgeTreeLive Web address uses a secure HTTPS connection. The account name you specify when setting up your account becomes part of the Web address you use to access the KnowledgeTreeLive system. This Web address is the online location of your document management system.

To subscribe to KnowledgeTreeLive or to find out more about our on-premise editions, please contact the KnowledgeTree Sales Team. Alternatively, see the following resources:

•	KnowledgeTreeLive User Guide (View Online / Download PDF from the KnowledgeTree website)

KnowledgeTree Community Edition is the free version of the Web-based KnowledgeTree Document Management System.

KnowledgeTree Community Edition may be downloaded for evaluation and use at no cost. KnowledgeTree Community Edition is suitable in many document and records management scenarios.

Click here to download KnowledgeTree Community Edition from the KnowledgeTree website.

KnowledgeTree Community Edition is available as a software appliance. The KnowledgeTree Appliance is available in a variety of build types, including virtual machine images, bootable install CDs/DVDs, VMWare, and hard-drive images.

KnowledgeTree Appliance is easily maintained once installed to a dedicated physical or virtual server - updates are packaged and sent to the server via the Internet, further reducing the total cost of ownership.

The following KnowledgeTree Appliance documentation is available on the KnowledgeTree Wiki:

•	Installing KnowledgeTree Appliance - how to download and install KnowledgeTree Open Source Appliance

•	Configuring KnowledgeTree Appliance - how to use the Appliance Configuration Wizard to define the initial configuration, to edit the configuration, and for configuring updates

•	Configuring KnowledgeTree through the Appliance Management Interface - how to configure KnowledgeTree-specific settings by editing KnowledgeTree's config.ini file through the Appliance Management Interface