Autodesk Doubles Down on Software Subscriptions

摘要

Autodesk is drawing a line in the sand with a definitive cutoff for the availability of perpetual desktop licenses. "New commercial seats of most standalone desktop software products will be available only by Desktop Subscription beginning Feb. 1,2016," the company announced in early February. The move is part of is transition to a subscription-only model. "The move to cloud, mobile and social platforms for software companies is as profound as the move from mainframe to desktop computers," says Andrew An-agnost, senior vice president and industry strategist for Autodesk. "If we want to be relevant to our customers in the new world, we have to be moving toward a pure cloud-based, subscription-based company." He went so far as to declare, "All successful software companies in the future will be cloud companies."