LabVIEW
LabVIEW subscription model for 2022
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@Blokk wrote:
I am not familiar with business and licencing matters too much, but I feel a "tiered pricing" would make LV more competitive. So the license price would be based on the buyer's yearly revenue, or other metrics. Rich players would pay more, smaller, like family based businesses would pay much less. The recent cost of the SW just does not make it competitive to use it instead of other languages, especially if the project does not include or not many NI HW products (so no need for DAQmx things, etc.)...
Autodesk (a CAD company) offers their Fusion 360 CAD program for free as long as you're under $100k of revenue per year (IIRC). There are some hoops to jump through to make sure people aren't lying about it, but I always thought that was a great way to help people get started and "hook" them on their product. (Fusion 360 is subscription-only as well, which isn't great, but it's always been that way and the prices aren't crazy high so there wasn't a "switcheroo" feeling like going from perpetual only to subscription only).
@AhmedEisawy wrote:
@antonioatn wrote:
Another one leaving Labview for C#/.NET.
It was a good ride but I cannot risk losing all my code if I have to stop paying for the subscription.
If the subscription model doesn't suit you, you can request a quote for a perpetual LabVIEW license on ni.com.
Given the currently high price of perpetual licenses, our sales development engineers will discount it for you, until we refine our pricing and packaging.
That sounds so shady. Why not just lower the price?
@AeroSoul wrote:
Probably because if you lower the price by 10% it's across the board.
If you give some people 10%, some 5% and some are ok with paying the not discounted price, you get more money.
I know everyone is a case by case basis. But we have been presented with SIGNIFICANTLY more discount. I'm unsure what NI's motivation was but we are grateful, and likely will get some new perpetual licenses, then reevaluate it next year.
