One of the more interesting comments was posted last week:
One of the more interesting comments was posted last week:
I hadn't seen that, but we actually are a company.. not a huge number of licenses, we would probably buy 40 right now if we could.. but currently we have I think 27 ish..
I posed on another post..
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"in general, we've upgraded every 2 releases. we certainly see the advantage of upgrades, but we have to balance costs.
so.. the last time we upgraded from CS 3 to CS5, I think it cost us about €15k (it may have been €18k I can't remember) -so annualized, it's maybe 5-6k.. a very manageable amount of money.
the thing is, almost none of us use just 1 program, a lot of us use PS, AI and ID on a daily basis. design standard was the ideal package for the majority of us, and we expanded where needed.
I certainly understand the benefit of the full master suite - I'd love to have it.. but.. not everyone in our team need it.. you can buy the individual licences but, it's not really viable to do it for 3 individual licenses per user.
quickly doing the math - even just for 25 CC licences (which isn't enough for us) - €61 per user per month, that's 61*12*25 - that comes to €18k per year!
now to make things worse, instead of getting a discount for buying 25 licenses, they introduce "teams"... so instead of paying €61 per month, it's €86!!! so that's 86*12*25 - that's almost €26,000 per year!!!
I like centrally managed licenses, I don't need 100gb of online storage.
so that goes from an annualized cost of €6k per year to €26k per year..
I know they have an introductory offer - I don't care about that.. that's only 1 year in what I hope is a long company future.
and we're growing.. increasing our number of users.. but at this price... well.. we will be looking long and hard at alternatives..
so I'd argue, Adobe hasn't got the first clue about the SME Pro market.. "
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huge price difference.. and that's just for 25 licenses.. I can't imagine the cost for large enterprises.. it must be unsustainable..