In an interesting move (well, interesting if you sell software) Adobe have announced that you can now rent CS 3 Design Premium:
Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Subscription Edition
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Subscription Edition is available to customers in Australia. The box price of AU$129 includes your first month of subscription service. Subscription pricing is AU$129 per month for a 12-month contract, and AU$199 a month on an ad hoc basis.
You get full CS3 versions of InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver and Acrobat 8 Professional. All future updates are included as long as you are still subscribed. Coretech is taking preorders if you’re interested.
Be warned that the 12 month subscription can not be cancelled and automatically renews unless you turn off the “auto-renew-subscription” option.
At this stage this is the only product that you can get via subscription. I’m sure there’ll be more.
#1 by Shane Dennis on August 9, 2009 - 12:45 am
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“Renting” out our software works great. We have all our customers on annual licenses. The annual licenses provide stable, ongoing funding for ongoing development and support. Without the annual licenses we would have been toast years ago, and our customers would be SOL.