When I visited Magento website today in order to prepare for Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist exam I was surprised to see pretty significant change in the product offering: there is no reference to Magento Enterprise any more, however instead we may see a whole section called Magento Cloud.
![Magento products - cloud and open source](/_gatsby/image/9116831911fda3318e7c608d8ae85e85/2c4782e7502d096a2ddf326f1ab8ac16/magento-products-cloud-and-open-source.png?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.magenable.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2Fmagento-products-cloud-and-open-source.png&a=w%3D306%26h%3D132%26fm%3Dpng%26q%3D90&cd=2017-08-07T07%3A45%3A47)
If you go deeper and check Magento Cloud/Commerce you see this page, where you find that Magento Inc. now offers only cloud plans as on the screenshots below:
![Magento Cloud Commerce prices](/_gatsby/image/2f2c9135f3e78f8f10b03bb3e7e2a3f0/f81c02b72aa31783958df0537e438498/magento-cloud-commerce-plans.png?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.magenable.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2Fmagento-cloud-commerce-plans.png&a=w%3D211%26h%3D210%26fm%3Dpng%26q%3D90&cd=2017-08-07T07%3A40%3A34)
As you may notice both of them come with “Cloud hosting & deployment”. There is no reference to any other options.
Visiting Open Source link we may find that it is a product used to be known as Magento Community, which is a kind of re-branding.
![Magento Open Source](/_gatsby/image/7da8b88df0ebfc38d76dcf374184737d/1adb336515398f732937a957d4b3262b/magento_open-source.png?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.magenable.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2Fmagento_open-source.png&a=w%3D314%26h%3D138%26fm%3Dpng%26q%3D90&cd=2017-08-07T07%3A51%3A58)
So the big question, has Magento decided to ditch on-premises edition of their Enterprise software and only provide cloud solution? It will be a huge shift for the platform known to be open-source in core. Previously Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition, a PaaS version of Magento Enterprise was just an option, if preferred merchants could self-host it in their own environment.
At the moment of writing this post (evening of August 7th 2017, Melbourne/Australia time) it isn’t clear. I couldn’t find any official announcements.
To get some clarifications, I’ve started a topic in Reddit with this question and post in Twitter.
Nope. Cloud is of course emphasis, but both on-premises Magento Commerce (née Enterprise Edition) & Open Source (née CE) remain available.
— Ben Marks (@benmarks) August 7, 2017
Hopefully Magento Inc. will shed more light on their product line changes, so stay tuned.
Update: seems that on-premises Magento Enterprise Edition will be available according to Twitter post from Ben Marks