Another company takes advantage of the opportunity offered by competing companies that have adopted a rental-only model against the will of many of their customers. Bentley Systems, known for applications such as MicroStation and ProjectWise, as well as for its recent acquisition of E-on Software, has launched a program that offers to credit the net value of Autodesk licenses towards perpetual licenses of Bentley’s applications. Bentley claims these will never depreciate, as the company will continue to offer perpetual and rental licensing options in the future. More on Bentley’s website.
Interestingly enough, Autodesk’s Senior Director of Business Models has written a blog post discussing Bentley’s program.
Also of note, CAD specialist Steve Johnson has provided his point of view on both of the above: Part 1 – Bentley,
Part 2 – Autodesk.
Last but not least, the implicit good news in Bentley’s announcement is that software such as Vue, PlantFactory and Carbon Scatter will not be pushed into rental-only licensing models.
Imagine if maxon and side effect also offered this to maya , softimage and 3ds max users?
SideFx has been very clever by offering a powerful Houdini indie license and everything that comes with it (the engines licenses) for only 199$ a year. They would destroy Maya and Max completely if they were to offer the same thing as Bentley! I hope they do just this even though I would shed a tear on max death. But it would be maybe less painful than watching it slowly dissolve in the hands of Autodesk.
marketing says “a non competitive product is destined to die”…after this sentence it could do two things: die or be competitive.
They should.
I always loved Steve Johnson’s blog, glad that it’s being revived. And his second post (Part 2 – Autodesk) is a gem. A printout should be handed over to every single Autodesk personnel living in this “Everybody has gone to the Rental” Autodesk bubble
blender offered this to 3ds Max
LOL
That’s true!
@spacefrog I wonder if the Director of Business Models at Autodesk believes himself what he’s saying. They should at least know we don’t believe it for half a second. Who are they writing these things for?
And the squabble continues – seems Autodesk launched a campaign naming it “Beyond Bentley”., pretty ridiculous waste of money in my eyes, which they should better spend on 3ds Max’s dev team funding …
http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2016/08/12/battle-of-the-bullshit-part-3-beyond-bentley/