Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[John Posada]

Syed: "smaller-entity" users (such as individual tech writers, graphics
artists and consultants) for whom the cost of tools is an issue...

I AM one of them and the cost of tools is very much an issue...I could
never have afforded the one-time purchase of thousands of dollars I'd need
to get what's in CC. OTOH, $50 a month a can easily afford. IMHO, this is a
great thing.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:

> This is not just a rumor I think ... it is mentioned on the Adobe web site
> for their CS tools (... have not seen anything for FrameMaker though). This
> may work for some (many?) corporate users, but as far as I am concerned, it
> is just one more nail in the Adobe tools coffin (for example, see my recent
> rant on their FrameMaker license maintenance policy change).
>
> To me (and I emphasize I am only expressing my opinion and belief), it
> looks like Adobe is heading away from supporting their "smaller-entity"
> users (such as individual tech writers, graphics artists and consultants)
> for whom the cost of tools is an issue.
>
> So we have to look for alternatives. For example, I now use Xara Photo and
> Graphic Designer instead of Adobe Photoshop (I stopped upgrading at version
> CS3). The good news is that there are less expensive, rational licensing,
> alternatives to many Adobe products. FrameMaker is one that may be more
> difficult to find an alternative for - I simply plan to never upgrade from
> version 11 again and just look for alternatives. I am even back to Word
> (eek!) for many shorter documents - my last five or six 10-20 page
> white-papers have come out reasonably well in Word! Where I used to fire up
> FrameMaker to do all writing, I find myself using Word more and more for
> trip reports, memos, white-papers, etc. And the experience isn't as bad as
> I was afraid it might be.
>
> My bottom line is that a SaaS model is not an acceptable model for these
> kinds of tools.
>
> Z
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:38 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only
>
> I have just heard a rumor that the CS Suite is going to available in
> future only on an SaaS basis, by subscription. TCS/FrameMaker could follow?
>
> I do wonder whether the accountants that run large corporates like Adobe
> understand how important their software is to the countless thousands of
> freelances who have to scrape every last penny to buy it - but at least
> then they own something, not vapor that goes phut as soon as you stop
> paying for it.
>
> For the last two decades FrameMaker, Illustrator, Acrobat and Dreamweaver
> have been the rocks underpinning what I do. I'm far less sure about the
> future, though.
>
> --
> Steve [somewhat aghast]
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