Soft and pricing 2005-05-27 - By tony@(protected)
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Hi all,
I'm trying to work out who the best person is to speak to at softimage about
licensing and maintenance.
I'd like other peoples opinions on this too.
I basically want to get a good discount on render licenses and maintenance.
At the moment, Soft (and most other vendors) have two distinct price groups, one
for the commercial sector (studios etc.) and one for the education sector
(schools, students etc).
The education sector enjoys massive discounts - a commercial license of xsi 4.2
costs $6995. compare that to $295 for a teacher/student/institution (permenant)
license.
Now, I am freelancer. Since I earn my living using XSI, its only right and fair
that I pay for it.
However, I not a studio, nor a big earner of any sort. Yet I'm a little upset
that I'm expected to have to pay full whack for software, render licenses and
maintenance contracts.
I'm finding it increasing difficult these days to justifiy to myself why I
should be paying maintenance since I really get all the help I need from forums
and list servers. Indeed, I don't think I've ever called soft support - just
about the only benefit I get from having a maintenance contract is upgrades and
patches.
I got lucky recently and got my hands one a rack of dual proc render units for a
really good price.
But forking out for render licenses for it is going to cost a bomb (more than
the renderfarm itself!).
And these days lots of other vendors are starting to offer unlimited network
rendering,
So, what I want to ask the right person at Softimage is - what can you do to
ease the financial burden on my shoulders?
Is their any reward you can offer those individuals among us who did the honest
thing and stumped up loads of cash to buy your software for our work, rather
than take the easy route and use cr@(protected) software?
Could you add another price group - freelancer rates - to your portfolio?
Anyone know who I should talk to at Soft about this?
What do other people think?
cheers
Tony
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