Comments on: Licensing for education http://www.james-greenwood.com/2009/04/13/licensing-for-education/ passionate about education & technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Walder http://www.james-greenwood.com/2009/04/13/licensing-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Stephen Walder Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:45:00 +0000 http://www.james-greenwood.com/?p=24#comment-25 Unfortuantely for us, Adobe have got there selves a nice little monopoly going on there - no one else touches them on the creative front and it's the consumer that pays a premium for the priveledge. Remember before the merger? It was Adobe that swollowed up Macromedia. Adobe had photoshop & AE and the web side of things belonged to Macromedia. I guess this merger did the consumer no good and now we have bundles instead of individual pieces of software. Unfortuantely for us, Adobe have got there selves a nice little monopoly going on there – no one else touches them on the creative front and it’s the consumer that pays a premium for the priveledge.

Remember before the merger? It was Adobe that swollowed up Macromedia. Adobe had photoshop & AE and the web side of things belonged to Macromedia. I guess this merger did the consumer no good and now we have bundles instead of individual pieces of software.

]]> By: James http://www.james-greenwood.com/2009/04/13/licensing-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4 James Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:55:41 +0000 http://www.james-greenwood.com/?p=24#comment-4 Makes sense, doesn't it? I appreciate that small, education only software companies can hardly afford to think long-term like that, but Adobe? Surely putting together a long-term strategy like getting their software into schools at a price they can afford will pay off hugely in the long-term - building life long customers isn't easily done, otherwise! I ought to point out that I'm not singling out Adobe with this - there are plenty of software companies that work in exactly the same way, they're just one among many that we're frustrated by at my school. Makes sense, doesn’t it? I appreciate that small, education only software companies can hardly afford to think long-term like that, but Adobe? Surely putting together a long-term strategy like getting their software into schools at a price they can afford will pay off hugely in the long-term – building life long customers isn’t easily done, otherwise!

I ought to point out that I’m not singling out Adobe with this – there are plenty of software companies that work in exactly the same way, they’re just one among many that we’re frustrated by at my school.

]]> By: Ira Socol http://www.james-greenwood.com/2009/04/13/licensing-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ira Socol Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:38:01 +0000 http://www.james-greenwood.com/?p=24#comment-3 Jeff Keltner of Google Apps for Education: "We think that if we give this away to schools we'll build a lot of life long customers, and we know how to monetize that." Thus the difference between companies that "get it" - which actually includes Microsoft to a degree, and companies which don't. Jeff Keltner of Google Apps for Education: “We think that if we give this away to schools we’ll build a lot of life long customers, and we know how to monetize that.” Thus the difference between companies that “get it” – which actually includes Microsoft to a degree, and companies which don’t.

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