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346gnu13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
August 22, 2017
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Renting/leasing, a change for the better?

  • August 22, 2017
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Hi,

 

What are the views of the forum re changes away from - BUY/Maintenance to RENT?

 

I cannot see how it is good for the smaller company (us) and at present fail to see how I could be kept interested other than having nowhere else to go because all vendors going/gone that way.

 

Smaller companies are often able to receive tax breaks on purchasing an asset but not on a lease. Yes, the entry cost for a smaller company is lower as lower capital outlay BUT the incremental cost of going one day over your lease is horrible.

 

I can see how it is perhaps better for the bigger companies.

 

Thoughts anyone?

 

 

Tangential thoughts ...

 

I like by DVD collection. Will it be long before I MUST stream my film and MUST pay everytime ?

 

My phtographer friend no longer uses Adobe products as the monthly cost is prohibative.

 

I don't like Office365 or whatever it's called as I might want to finish that letter tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
August 23, 2017

I purchased MS Office rather than renting it.

It all depends on your business case.

Dale_Rosema
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
August 24, 2017

I would prefer to buy Creo vs rent it. Currently grandfathered in, but it seems that most are going that way.

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346gnu13-AquamarineAuthor
13-Aquamarine
September 27, 2017

I was just told that Nastran is cheaper to lease

skunks
skunks19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
October 2, 2017

Hi,

 

NASTRAN and this?

 

regards

paul

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346gnu13-AquamarineAuthor
13-Aquamarine
October 2, 2017

Paul


A 'Richard King' works (worked?) for PTC.

 

For the price it's worth getting for fun. We could get a lot of seats for the price of our annual maintenance.

 

I shall download the evaluation and have a play.

 

Charles

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346gnu13-AquamarineAuthor
13-Aquamarine
October 10, 2017

Another way to make permanent licenses 'expire' will be to make some newer functionality only available via leasing.

Dale_Rosema
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
October 10, 2017

Shhh! Don't give them any ideas.   🙂

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
October 10, 2017

PTC has already announced this very thing.  Certain new functionality will only be available to those on subscription.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
October 24, 2017

Interesting development on the SolidWorks end...

 

This has to do with "ownership":

I had dropped maintenance for Solidworks a year ago.

Today I get an email stating that SW has a special offer to only pay 50% of the backpay on getting back on-board.

 

Writing on the wall?

 

SW did the perpetual maintenance scheme very publically and they really got nailed for it.

Now the backpeddling begins.

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346gnu13-AquamarineAuthor
13-Aquamarine
October 30, 2017

just putting this back at the top

 

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