Comments on: Should IT Embrace Subscription Licensing https://smbitjournal.com/2014/11/should-it-embrace-subscription-licensing/ The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Steve https://smbitjournal.com/2014/11/should-it-embrace-subscription-licensing/comment-page-1/#comment-22074 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:28:37 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=671#comment-22074 “For customers purchasing software, this change is actually beneficial as it lowers the overall cost of software…” In the case of the Adobe Creative Cloud, the subscription would raise my annual cost by over 350% (software price increase aside)�??I didn’t need to upgrade every to every version and I only needed a few applications, not their entire range. (Plus, if one quits subscribing the applications quit working which in some cases means some files are essentially lost. Then there was the incident awhile back when Adobe’s licensing servers hiccuped and many people lost use of their software for up to about a week.)

The silver lining in Adobe’s subscription-only posture is that it opens the door for smaller competitors to move in and perhaps loosen part of Adobe’s stranglehold on the professional graphics software market. That is probably needed to keep Adobe’s subscription pricing in check.

I don’t think subscription licensing is inherently bad as long as there is real competition and the consumer has viable alternatives. Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro subscription licensing supports the positive aspect you outline above, I don’t believe Adobe’s does.

]]> By: David https://smbitjournal.com/2014/11/should-it-embrace-subscription-licensing/comment-page-1/#comment-21923 Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:10:45 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=671#comment-21923 Nice. We are right in the middle of this. I’m having a time convincing Finance that it’s a big benefit to go subscription on Adobe because we haven’t quite reached he break-even point from buying the software outright vs. subscription. But I suspect we will eventually go that way.

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