Adobe to kill Creative Suite, software now cloud only
 

Adobe is killing off Creative suite and programs such as Photoshop will now be a cloud only subscription product. Read more here

I particularly like this part...

"The move is likely to be highly controversial and could lead to a rise in the cost of software for businesses

However, Adobe has brushed away those concerns. It said that is convinced that any complaints will subside after a while."

Yeah complaints will subside as the business community dumps Adobe for something else. :)

Dunno, what alternatives are there? :hmmm:

Apple, Microsoft and Quark to name three off the top of my head.

None of which have as big of a community behind them as Adobe AFAIK.

Adobe is very much like 3ds max. Even if a vastly better app would be available,
no one's going to use it because that would mean abandoning thousands
of 3rd party tools, plug-ins, scripts etc.

Not to mention the time it takes to learn and get used to the new program.

We'll see.

I'll stick with my disc version, does all I want so no need to continually update, and no need for the cloud.

Anyone else who works in an IT company sick of hearing "The cloud". It's like the latest buzzword as of the last few years. Hell, my company has moved our data to a cloud network.

Adobe is ingrained in the business world. I often wondered why it was free to begin with. :hmmm: Oh well, sometimes it takes a few bucks to make a few bucks.

It becomes visible (was like that before, but not so obvious) that you do own zero/null/nada of the software you 'buy'.
You buy the right to use it, often only for a limited time.

However from MS 'Azure' to Adobe it becomes clear that the future will be a primitive console at home, while needing a costly internet connection and costly licenses.
I do not like it though, and i hope i am wrong. :hmmm:

Depends what you do.
Simple solution is freeware GIMP.

I thing they should come up with cheap solutions for home users or students or the company may lose in long run.

GIMP works if there really isnt anything else to use. The big issue I have with it,
as a long time Photoshop user, is the way they pretty much change all the hotkeys
to what they think are good. Takes quite a bit of time to learn navigate everything
quickly. :hmmm:

Yeah, I agree. The price could be slightly lower.

Well I sure am. In this age of electronic surveillance and computer hacking the idea of deliberately putting a companies proprietary data out over the internet seems to me like a real bad idea.

Me too. Every week for over a year we get at least one flyer and one phone call about cloud computing.

I think it's the latest technological phase. Kinda like how back in the late 90's when you stopped seeing HTML done in frames and done in tables instead. Same thing, only with a distribution schema.

I do however, dislike immensely, not sending our data to inhouse company ran servers. At least when we still did that, It was easier for me to troubleshoot when something went wrong, and I knew what extension to dial for the server room, located around the corner from my cube. Not to mention being able to give our sysadmin some crap cause I knew the guy and saw him every day.

No no.. everythings, "on the cloud" now.

An even larger company like Adobe doing this is hardly surprising to me.