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Important Autodesk Upgrade Policy Change

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pendean
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Important Autodesk Upgrade Policy Change

Anyone else get this email? Looks like 2007-2008-2009 are back on the eligible-upgrade list, and pricing for everyone upgrading through R2012 (outside subscription) is going to get only a 30% discount.

 

Subscription now looks to be real cheap... .

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TravisNave
in reply to: pendean

I think they're really pushing Subscription.  I wouldn't be surprised if it were a requirement pretty soon. 



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pendean
in reply to: TravisNave

Kind of like Revit and Inventor have been, as well as many of their competitors out there.

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TravisNave
in reply to: pendean

With Internet sales, forced Subscription, and now surveying us to see if we're interested in cloud services, it makes me wonder if the writing is on the wall for the VARs?  I forsee the very real possibility of AutoCAD being a cloud application down the road. 



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DarrenP
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sorta already is with autocadws

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TravisNave
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Right on.  Kind of like a test market for the rest of the product line...



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Message 7 of 12
DarrenP
in reply to: TravisNave

i remember autodesk tried this with other autodesk 2010 products 

it was a labs technology preview called Project Twitch

i believe it was with Inventor, Autocad, Revit Architecture, Maya

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DarrenP
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the reason they are pushing subscription is for their cloud services

they are continuing to add more services ike this BIM 360

maybe in the future one of the services would using their products on the cloud

you already sort of get that if you have a citrix enviroment

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pendean
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LT 2013 trial is on the cloud, well Citrix anyway, try it and see the future today.

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DarrenP
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it looks like you have to be a certain distance away from the data center to use it

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JamesMaeding
in reply to: pendean

I think people are underestimating the problems with running acad remote from some Adesk server.

The attempts I have seen were not even close to the performance of running local.

Plus the problem of no internet connection situations.

There has been no discussion of customization handling, and one could argue that is the main reason we use AutoCad.

On top of that, we have been burned so many times by Autodesk on various things, the LAST thing we want is them in control of our production.

Autodesk can play around, but its all talk until they make major improvements, and can show we have the control needed to run real jobs.


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Message 12 of 12
dgorsman
in reply to: JamesMaeding

Its not just a matter of setting up servers on the SaaS provider end.  There's the entire infrastructure between them right down to the individual users.  As companies finally start migrating from older XP systems to Win 7 they are also using it as an opportuity for updating their hardware and other IT infrastructure as well.  So it may be a possibility in another couple of years in major population centers for large-scale companies, which are the only ones I can see seeing more than a break-even benefit.

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