Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Ken Poshedly]

I was contacted by the reseller that my company uses earlier today and it turns 
out that only it will be either all or nothing, no picking-and-choosing.

We here use FM, Acrobat Professional and may be getting into InDesign in the 
future, but we have no need -- and do not see a need in the future -- for all of 
the other stuff.

And it appears, from an e-mail from my reseller, that we may be SOL regarding 
upgrades to our currently licensed software in the not-too-distant future:


·         * 15 new CC apps including Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign CC, 
Adobe Illustrator CC and more will be made available to all CCT users by 
June17th
·         *Adobe has confirmed any future enhancements for their creative 
products will be available through their CCT offering only (boldfacing mine)

·         * CCT Packager available for centralized IT deployment
·         * New LOWER price for your additional copies effective NOW thru 
8/31/2013.  ($480 MSRP)
By the way, the reseller my company uses is very straight-up and hasn't steered 
us wrong in the past, so nothing against them.

-- Ken in Atlanta




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From: "Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com" <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com>
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Mon, May 13, 2013 9:03:21 AM
Subject: RE: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-13-01T13:00Z

There's that death knell again . . ..

Dave Stamm
Information Engineer

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: 2013-05-09-Thursday 12:38
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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