@falcon2001 wrote:
I realize now that my post was made in the context of cloud infrastructure, not just licensing servers with subscription models like Adobe. But since this whole article is about adobe, I get where you're coming from.
For what it's worth I don't really have a strong opinion on subscription software - personally I'd rather pay the up-front cost unless I'm getting a significant service benefit alongside it, as most times I'm planning on using it for a while, but I totally get that it makes sense for some applications. It's also worth noting that apparently Adobe has a 30 day check-in policy for it's auth, which I think is probably a good standard in terms of customer/company benefits.
(Minor gripe, I hate when people just use 'cloud' to mean 'the internet' instead of meaning 'a geo-distributed network of computers with inherent self-healing and redundancy'. I realize that working with infrastructure like that for a living I'm biased, but seeing stuff like Western Digital labeling a hard drive 'MyCloud' made me want to fly somewhere and punch someone.'