tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161408568828348657.post1133889884763872903..comments2024-03-20T14:03:26.971-04:00Comments on CAD-a-Blog: Poll Results-Autodesk release CycleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271671745973808745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161408568828348657.post-63585024364247700672008-10-30T07:16:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:16:00.000-04:00I understand your view. Autodesk is a huge compan...I understand your view. Autodesk is a huge company, but it does not have the same audience as Microsoft nor as Adobe. Autodesk serves more of a niche audience. Though I would consider Autodesk to be "the Microsoft" of CAD. Since Microsoft serves everyone using a PC, they can not possibly release a new version every year. Imagine the chaos that would cause. Everything runs off of Windows.<BR/><BR/>Back on topic. (though the above is an interesting conversation too)Since Autodesk's audience is smaller than Microsoft they can move a release more quickly. And, there are far fewer 3d party software programs (is that redundant?) running on AutoCAD than there are running on Windows. I feel comparing the two is not completely fair, not that I am defending the 12 month cycle.<BR/><BR/>As a user, the 12 month cycle doesn't bother me. I can keep up with the software every 12 months on my own. As a firm having to keep my users up to date and my software/hardware up to date every year, well, that's different. It costs too much money for far too little benefit. Updating my software every two to three years is a far more acceptable model. Some firms would prefer to never change, well, that's just not reality and unwise.<BR/><BR/>I do like having a regularly scheduled release date. That makes it easier to budget for firms that need this software. They know when to expect it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08271671745973808745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161408568828348657.post-9718617172484772172008-10-30T06:26:00.000-04:002008-10-30T06:26:00.000-04:00Hey, I'm an Autodesk employee (I choose to remain ...Hey, I'm an Autodesk employee (I choose to remain anonyomous).<BR/><BR/> I'm 100% against the yearly release cycle. I have no inside knowledge as to why we continue to stick with it, but when I look at the big(ger) boys in software (MS, Adobe, etc.) I don't see any of them enslaving themselves to a yearly release. I'm sure there are high-flying corporate reasons for it -- something abstract related to a particular 'business model', but certainly I do not think that a yearly release cycle is a good thing. 12 months is just an arbitrary amount of time and to be constantly on the yearly-release treadmill has little or no benefit in my opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com