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I don't know how things are where you work, but in all the
places I've been, apps like Adobe FM and Acrobat didn't
even register on the sysadmin radar. They were concerned
primarily with what everyone used, like MS Office, Lotus
Notes, etc. Those of us using "odd" things that didn't
take up a couple of dozen or more seats were always left
to fend for ourselves, and our decisions whether to buy
upgrades were made long before the sysadmins ever got into
it (and I didn't leave out the cost/training/downtime managerial concerns). In all the years I've been using
FM and Acrobat, nobody has ever installed either program
for me, even in companies where you had to call IT just to
load a Word SR.
As for MS apps, I am pretty much ignoring them, because
any co with 5 or more seats will probably just buy the
corporate editions and not have to worry about activation
at all.
Gene Kim-Eng
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:05:00 -0700 Bruce Byfield?wrote:
While I agree that whether a licensing scheme prevents upgrading is
questionable - or "unproven," I would say. However, you're leaving out a whole
range of managerial/sysadmin reasons. For managers,there's the question of cost
and retraining. For sysadmins, there's the question of integrating the upgrade
with existing software; often, the upgrade comes not long after all the bugs
have been ironed out of the previous upgrade, and sysadmins are understandably
reluctant to start the process all over again if they have a stable and secure
system.
More to the point, some sysadmins, too, are worried about recent changes to MS
licenses that they feel may compromise the security of their systems. Whether
this is a legitimate worry is a question for another day, and doesn't matter
here; what's important is that, valid or not, the licensing scheme can play a
large role in deciding whether or not to upgrade.
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