Soft and pricing 2005-05-27 - By Will Mendez
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Tony,
I will contact you offline, and see if we can help you out in anyway.
There is a thread about maintenance and it's value here
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=243889&page=1&pp=15 which might
be of some help as well.
-Will
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
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Posted At: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:57 PM
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Conversation: Soft and pricing
Subject: Soft and pricing
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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