autodesk monthly software rental failing?

[John Dollus]

ran across this article regarding the financial impact of Autodesk eliminating the perpetual license:

 

http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2016/06/01/disaster-in-progress-autodesks-all-rental-plans-are-failing/

 

 

My own thoughts on the matter are echoed in the 3rd comment on the page from Mr. Crawford

[Ernest Burden III]

I can't say I like the trend, but then I'm not in control, so what I like matters not.

 

With a car, I can buy, lease, rent, borrow, buy second-hand, inherit, accept as a gift or steal. All gets me down the road.

 

With this Autodesk/Adobe-type policy, I can rent or steal. So I rent.

[Francisco Penaloza]

Well at that level, some companies are prepared for that type of loses. It sound ridiculous when we are talking about Million of dollars. but yea some of them are prepared for that.

Adobe faced the same problem and about the same proportions so I think they know this and, they'll just keep swimming.

in the worse case scenario they will bring back subscriptions for those with perpetual licenses.

What I don't understand are the fees. They are understandable for individuals, maybe, for me they are high compared to other software, but for a corporation it scale really quick and becomes way more expensive.

If anything I would expect a decline in a long run not a short nose dive like now.

Time will tell.

[Scott Schroeder]

How odd that in Q2 of 2016 they posted a loss. Yet in the same quarter Autodesk purchased the Arnold rendering system which I'm pretty sure cost them a pretty penny. It's no wonder that they would post a loss, their overall gain in another widely used product means more future revenue.

 

The chart and blog post wasn't really made with facts, more of poorly informed opinions.