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- Jan 4, 2014
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- Portland, OR
SOLIDWORKS Online Licensing Discontinuation
So I've ranted on here a few times about how insane it is that our annual maintenance for ~10k in Solidworks seats is about 5k. They are gouging the heck out of customers and offering essentially no improvements or support for the cost of staying "up-to-date".
Today they got rid of online licensing. So now the product is actively getting worse. They are removing features that customers paid for.
I have 3 licenses. One for me that gets used at work and at home, one for a programmer that gets used at work and at home, and one that is shared by 3 workstations that use Solidworks a couple hours a week. My options are to buy (4) more licenses, or add a network license server for about the same cost. Also, I believe the network server will stop working if we ever let the maintenance (50% of cost/year) lapse.
I've got about 20k total into only 3 seats of Solidworks that will not ever be updated again, and will now have to node lock to 3 computers. Talk about poor value.
Guess I'm going to have to re-invest all over again in a different CAD system. Fuck you Dassault.
So I've ranted on here a few times about how insane it is that our annual maintenance for ~10k in Solidworks seats is about 5k. They are gouging the heck out of customers and offering essentially no improvements or support for the cost of staying "up-to-date".
Today they got rid of online licensing. So now the product is actively getting worse. They are removing features that customers paid for.
I have 3 licenses. One for me that gets used at work and at home, one for a programmer that gets used at work and at home, and one that is shared by 3 workstations that use Solidworks a couple hours a week. My options are to buy (4) more licenses, or add a network license server for about the same cost. Also, I believe the network server will stop working if we ever let the maintenance (50% of cost/year) lapse.
I've got about 20k total into only 3 seats of Solidworks that will not ever be updated again, and will now have to node lock to 3 computers. Talk about poor value.
Guess I'm going to have to re-invest all over again in a different CAD system. Fuck you Dassault.