Altium Designer Pricing

I've been told that it's actually a very successful sales tool. Once a year, the customer (or potential customer) reconnects with the company. If said customer checks the "contact is OK" box, somebody will call. Not much different from keeping a sales "tickler" file. Siemens management seems to understand and support this. Maybe they came up with the idea.

The license key is a local text file - no license server to connect to. One person can put this file on a thumb drive or email it around. Poof - everybody's good for another year.

Libraries and templates are always an issue. The pain is only weakly related to the CAD package in use. I believe the pain is proportional to the square of the number of engineers with write access to the template directory.

Yes, I won't use proprietary CAD tools anymore. But even those are not likely to cut off the free tools. Have any of the vendors done this?

I don't even buy/use that kind of software! Software must keep working always.

Yup. Windows-as-a-service--the jokes write themselves!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Who is currently in bed with a cold, installing the Nth version of Linux in a VirtualBox VM [hosted under Mint] to play with. Looks like CentOS 7 LTS is a win.)

I have a full commercial perpetual Altium Designer license to sell.

I am moving out of the country and will not be using it.

Please contact me for details.

Roger

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How much did it sell?

Probably worth %5k or more.

Altium are offering a %40 discount at the moment (giving a sale price of $5495) for users moving from Eagle.

In reality if you haggle with them a %40 discount is usually achievable in any case.