Desktop Subscription

Looking to sign up for an annual desktop subscription at £300+VAT per year. Seems cheaper than buying the latest software every year.

 

 

Anyone else doing this? Worth it?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Mike

It seems to be but if you ever stop paying (for whatever reason) you are left without the use of the software. Unlike the perpetual license where it is yours as long as you can use it (or until it won't run on future hardware/OS). We went with purchase and subscription.

Looking to sign up for an annual desktop subscription at £300+VAT per year. Seems cheaper than buying the latest software every year.

 

£300 + VAT @20% so about £360 a year?

Thats the latest offer on LT 2015 yes?

http://store.autodesk.co.uk/store/adsk/en_GB/html/pbPage.NamerPid?s_tnt=49976:1:0

 

365 days a year so roughly £1 a day, you probably spend more than that on coffee.

2015 LT is $45.00 a month in the USA, renews every month. I have mine that way.

Dana thats about 1 hr a month of client charge, interesting my son pays $14 a month for two Adobe products can stop and start when ever compared to say $500+ each. Looks like all big players are going this way, anyone Microstation ??

2015 LT is $45.00 a month in the USA, renews every month. I have mine that way.

 

$45 x 8 months = $360.... the same money will buy 12 months on annual desktop subscription... just say'n.

$45 x 8 months = $360.... the same money will buy 12 months on annual desktop subscription... just say'n.

Like bigal says, less than 1 hour a month in client money, and the next release costs me only whatever the rental increase is, if any.

Autodesk perpetual licenses are going away over the next 12 to 24 months, starting with LT.

Like bigal says, less than 1 hour a month in client money, and the next release costs me only whatever the rental increase is, if any.

 

Are you billing the clients directly for the subscription cost?.... if not, then it's not client money, it's company money that you're just giving to Autodesk. Unless you're a short term user, I don't see how it makes sense to pay 50% more on a monthly plan than you'd pay per month on an annual plan.

The monthly thing works out bigtime for people who need the Building Design Suite. I'm a huge fan of the month to month, or annual lease. Bigtime savings for the products.

Are you billing the clients directly for the subscription cost?.... if not, then it's not client money, it's company money that you're just giving to Autodesk. Unless you're a short term user, I don't see how it makes sense to pay 50% more on a monthly plan than you'd pay per month on an annual plan.

All the money coming in is client money, it doesn't make a lot of difference what I label it when it goes out. It still goes out. There has been a rate increase than more than covers it. And yes, the plan was to be a short term user when I started it up three months ago. We'll see how that works out. You do what you can in a pinch sometimes.