AutoDesk Moves To Subscription Model
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Not too surprising. This is the future model for nearly all enterprise software.
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It really does seem like just about everyone is going this way now. So much easier to capture ongoing revenue.
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My company isn't sold on subscription models, especially when Office 365 was going to run is 20K a year or so, so we just continue to get individual Office installs and just pay for Exchange Online only. So, in the light of the Autodesk announcement, we will upgrade those still on a AutoCAD 2007/2008 to latest and then purchase a few extra for future growth and then just hold out as long as they can before moving to the model.
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@garak0410 said:
My company isn't sold on subscription models, especially when Office 365 was going to run is 20K a year or so, so we just continue to get individual Office installs and just pay for Exchange Online only.
That's a confusing way to state that. Office 365 is the name of the subscription licensing scheme and Hosted Exchange is the most popular component of that.
It's that MS Office via Office 365 licensing was going to be $20K a year and that you are using Office 365 for Exchange only.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
My company isn't sold on subscription models, especially when Office 365 was going to run is 20K a year or so, so we just continue to get individual Office installs and just pay for Exchange Online only.
That's a confusing way to state that. Office 365 is the name of the subscription licensing scheme and Hosted Exchange is the most popular component of that.
It's that MS Office via Office 365 licensing was going to be $20K a year and that you are using Office 365 for Exchange only.
Right...sorry...if we were to have added Office to that, then, yes, 20K a year on average.
