Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: designpartners on January 26, 2014, 12:39:41 pm
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Hi,
we're on CS5, have about 20 or 25 seats of design standard and a few stand alone photoshop and illustrator.
we will have to make the move to CC soon enough.
we probably only run 10-12 programs at once through out the business, so 10 or 12 people using any Adobe product at once..
I know Adobe for individual licenses allow you to install on both your desktop and laptop for example, the theory being that you can only use 1 of them at once..
Do we need to buy 30 seats of CC, or could we buy 15 for example, install it on 30 machines and only run 15 of them at once?
its such an expensive upgrade, but right now, we don't have an alternative...
Thanks for any advice.
James
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AFAIK the licenses are distributed to users as defined by their email addresses so it's the number of users, not workstations, that matter. If you have 30 users you need 30 licenses even if only 15 at a time will be using the software. Each user can install it on 2 machines.
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http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide-at-a-glance.html
It's per user, not per seat.
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Some shops in your position are just buying one sub to CC and installing it on a particular machine for either a certain person or multiple users to use, basically as a "open" CC file versions and "save as" older versions for their other users.
Think about it. Do all the machinists in a widget shop have exactly the same tools in their toolbox? Probably not and they probably don't need the same tools either.
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Thanks for the replies - sounds about right with each seat per user. €30k per year is hard to swallow.
we did think about shared workstations, but that leads to it's own inefficiencies, probably cost us more money.
OK - I need to go have a hard talk with out CFO :(
Thanks for the feedback.
James