Adobe recently announced their new subscription based monthly and yearly plans with the launch of adobe cs5.5. I see this as a threat to Corel Draw being that it will give access to design tools for as low as $20 a month. I know over time you will be out of more money but to someone who is not willing to shell out $500- $1,200 upfront and need legit software right away they now have another option from adobe. Looks like a good move for adobe but if other companies don't follow it may be bad for the market.
How it works
Subscription editions of Creative Suite software are just like regular Creative Suite products — they are installed on your computer and provide all the same features and functionality. Choose a one-year plan for lower payments or a flexible month-to-month plan you can stop and restart as needed. Either way, you'll have ongoing access to the latest version of your software at no extra charge as long as your subscription remains active. Who it's for Customers of an older version of Creative Suite Customers no longer eligible for upgrade pricing Freelancers or owners of small businesses Anyone who needs the flexibility of software on an as-needed basis Plan options One-year planThe one-year plan offers lower monthly payments and requires a one-year commitment. This is the ideal plan for someone with an ongoing need to use Creative Suite software. Month-to-month plan The month-to-month plan provides the flexibility of a short-term commitment that allows you to stop and restart your subscription as your business needs change.
Subscription editions of Creative Suite software are just like regular Creative Suite products — they are installed on your computer and provide all the same features and functionality. Choose a one-year plan for lower payments or a flexible month-to-month plan you can stop and restart as needed. Either way, you'll have ongoing access to the latest version of your software at no extra charge as long as your subscription remains active.
Who it's for
Plan options
One-year planThe one-year plan offers lower monthly payments and requires a one-year commitment. This is the ideal plan for someone with an ongoing need to use Creative Suite software.
Month-to-month plan
The month-to-month plan provides the flexibility of a short-term commitment that allows you to stop and restart your subscription as your business needs change.
This is brilliant on Adobe's part.
I know at work the only reason we used Corel is cause it's the less expensive alternative. I've tried to preach the productivity side with Adobe's software and how it works flawlessly together but it's never heard. We do have a single copy of Photoshop and Illustrator on hand for when we need to do some heavy lifting but this type of thing would be perfect for a company like ours who doesn't necessarily use those products often enough to justify anything more than these type of subscription plans.
OK Andru,
I am going to take the bait, lol. Productivity, really? Tell me what you can do FASTER in Illustrator and Photoshop than someone who knows CDGS can do with Draw and PP? What is the "heavy lifting" you refer to? These are typical vauge statements with no real substance. I am interested to hear your side of the story though.
Best regards,Brian.
Brian said:OK Andru, I am going to take the bait, lol. Productivity, really? Tell me what you can do FASTER in Illustrator and Photoshop than someone who knows CDGS can do with Draw and PP? What is the "heavy lifting" you refer to? These are typical vauge statements with no real substance. I am interested to hear your side of the story though. Best regards,Brian.
Bait?
Do you just go looking for fights? It seems that's all I hear from you.
Productivity for my company means easliy being able to open and work with the Adobe files we are sent and ones we have to send out everyday. Believe me, it's alot easier opening an Illustrator file in Illustrator and knowing that everything will be there to work on verses using Corel to open it then having to fix the little small things that come up simply due to the communication barrier between Draw and Illustrator. The barrier is small but I see things that don't work all the time. Same type of thing with Photoshop.
When you are talking about software that is an industry standard its alot easier working with that when dealing with other companies that use it as well.
What I said was in no way a shot at Corel. I personally feel CorelDraw is way more user-friendly than Illustrator. And I realize I have some sort of false reputation to you but unfortunately you seem to be wrong every time. And I struggle to understand your motives sometimes.
Again I apologize for whatever it was I said that might have set you off this time.
Brute-Fish said:This could be useful for my shop where we all have X5 on each workstation but I'm the only one who has CS5 because we don't use it for every day use. So instead of needing to upgrade every new version I can just subscribe to the newest version for a month while I need it and let it lapse until I have a need again. Also a plus would be that I could have another workstation subscribe so I wouldn't have to be the only one converting troublesome artwork. Steve www.brutefish.com
I'm in a similar situation. All reasons why this is good news, to us at least.