At 08:11 AM 6/29/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Welcome back Ted. You might be able to find 99se or DXP on Ebay, or if >people like Mr Lomax are still in the business of reselling old >licenses, you could contact them...
Altium threw a bit of a monkey wrench in that, by refusing to allow resale of licenses. 99SE licences should still be resellable, but I'm not sure about DXP. Somewhere in there they decided to cut it off, to the dismay of some. It used to be that older licenses maintained a good "trade-in" value. Again, that got trashed. If anyone still wishes to buy or sell 99SE licenses, and isn't concerned about Altium recognition of the sale for support and upgrade purposes, there is a mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] When DXP was selling for $8000, and a 99SE license was worth $4000 in trade-in, it was quite reasonable to buy a 99SE license for $4000, and that is what some people did, with my assistance. From my point of view, it was win-win. Altium got a new customer, a market for upgrades -- and probably the majority of these licenses did end up being upgraded. The original owner got some of their investment out. And the buyer saved some initial outlay, retaining the choice to go for the next version, at least until Altium announced that the upgrade discount was going away. They were reasonably well-behaved about that, generally letting people know that the end was coming. But I really don't agree with the tack they took; it was not in their customers' interest. And when a company is not acting in its customers' interest, it's going down the wrong path. Obviously, the company must insure that its own needs are met, but when it appears that company interests and customer interests are at odds, it's a clue that the analysis is defective. Or one is in the wrong business! ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
