Hi Elisabeth, what I am missing in this discussion, when perpetual and leased (term) licenses are mentioned, is "accounting view". I am not accountant and because I am not typical end user (I am BDN member and consultant), I have limited knowledge how software asset management is done in companies, but I think an imporant difference exists there. I am aware there are huge changes in the local accounting law in some countries, but if I understand it right, investments into perpetual licenses are capex, on the other hand licenses leasing is opex (and who knows what SELECT fee is if it includes both services and software "valorization"). In many companies capex and opex are negotiated and approved at different management levels by completely different people, so the cost would not be as important as who can approve it in the company. And today what can be the problem, despite of opex is more flexible, at the same time opex is the first victim of company savings ... so managers will hate any non-predictable spending of opex budget. So what I think could help users and CAD managers are not only clear full information (e-mail about 2014 changes is really very bief), but also these kind of additional information which looks not interesting to engineers, but imporant if used as arguments when changes will be discussed with managers. But as I wrote, I am not the best person because of lack of experience and knowledge, so may be I am completely wrong ;-) With regards, Jan
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