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Blog, Enterprise IT - Friday, April 5, 2013 10:18 - 2 Comments
Digging into the Creative Cloud cost picture
blog If you’ve been following the ongoing issue of IT price hikes in Australia from multinational vendors, it will come as no surprise to you that US software giant Adobe would vastly prefer that you stop using its traditional boxed products and started subscribing instead to its subscription option, dubbed ‘Creative Cloud’. However, as local Melbourne blogger Dawnstar Australis found (we recommend you click here for his full post), Australians may end paying substantially more over the long-term to use Creative Clowd. Dawnstar looked at a discrete example involving Adobe Lightroom. His conclusions:
“… how does accessing Lightroom via Creative Cloud stack up against purchasing the box set (or digital download) outright? Well not very well as we’ll see.
At current pricing the full version of Adobe Lightroom 4 is $187 AU. To upgrade is $108. We’ll assume the upgrade cost stays the same each release (which is normally roughly the case) leaving us with a total cost of $727 AU ($187 initial cost, plus $108 multiplied by 5 years). That’s a full $472.40 AU cheaper than even our best hypothetical Creative Cloud scenario or for a direct comparison $2270 AU cheaper than the current real best case Creative Cloud scenario.”










