Autodesk announced that after February 1st, 2016, they will stop selling new permanent (perpetual) licenses of selected products. You will be able to purchase these products only as a "Desktop Subscription" (rental) - monthly, quarterly, yearly or multi-yearly. The existing permanent licenses are not affected as well as the products not listed here (e.g. Vault, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Plant 3D, Simulation and all Design Suites):
- 3ds Max
- AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
- AutoCAD Architecture
- AutoCAD Electrical
- AutoCAD Mechanical
- InfraWorks
- Inventor and Inventor Professional
- Inventor LT
- Maya and Maya LT
- MotionBuilder
- Mudbox
- Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage
- Revit Architecture and Revit MEP and Revit Structure
- Revit LT
The costs (TCO) of rented licenses are usually lower when compared to purchasing a permanent license with annual Maintenance Subscription, or compared to the older Upgrade model (upgrade every N-th version). The Desktop Subscription is much more flexible in terms of license management, deployment, user experience, temporary increases/decreases of available licenses and cloud integration. Plus you have no upfront costs...
The existing permanent licenses will be still permanent and you can still continue to renew and update them with your Maintenance Subscription. The announced change (1 year from now) will affect only newly purchased products. Desktop Subscription licensing has nothing to do with the cloud - you get standard locally installed software products (the same as usual). The sales channel through VARs remains the same.
See more details (in Czech)
The Autodesk "transition" press release
All information and FAQ - autodesk.com/perpetuallicenses
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