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By: Nathan Burgess

Nathan Burgess — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:07:12 +0000

Rob,

I’ve received a quotation on the “Adobe Digital School Col CS4 v7″ – $120.24 per machine.
As you say, not a bad price for the products you receive, but I’m now told that it’s not available as a site license OR even in a concurrent license version!
For a product marketed as a being for “Digital School”, to only have a single license option is unbelievable.
Like you, I want to give Adobe products to our students – they want them (and they are good), but at these prices we are being pushed to seek alternatives.
I’d like to know the deal the NSW department have made – and why I can’t get anything close. They are issuing Adobe products on their NetBooks, and while I know they are doing it on a grand scale, I can’t imagine they are being restricted by only having the licensing options we have available.

Regards,

Nathan

By: admin

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:56:33 +0000

Thanks Nathan

I’ve also noticed that when you license other Adobe software – Captivate for example, you can’t get volume licensing – I was quoted an education price of $182.22 exGST. The boxed product is nearly $1200, so that’s pretty good, but not realistic to provide to staff and students.

We really like Captivate – it’s great for creating demos and explaining stuff, typical Adobe – great software, useless licensing. I’ll have to persist with screenr.com.
Rob

By: Nathan Burgess

Nathan Burgess — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Rob,
The issue goes further than just their failure to provide satisfactory licensing for CS4.
We would like to install the “Digital School Collection CS4 v7″ (only 5 applications) onto our Netbooks (School owend). While I can use a site license for Master Collection on these, there isn’t one avaialble for the Digital Schools collection! Quotations I’ve seen have been outragously priced per unit, considering the cost of a 500 device site license!
Even the “Adobe PhotoShop Elements 8/Premiere Elements 8 Bundle” is nearly 5 times more expensive than the FULL CS4 suite!
What infuriates me most is that the NSW Department have a deal that we can’t get access to!

When I’m back at my computer on Monday, I might add some of the comments I had from the Adobe Education sales team to this blog!

Nathan